Will you please turn to the Gospel according
to John.
John chapter 12.
We'll read from verse 24 to verse
26.
John chapter 12, verse 24.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, except the
grain of wheat falling into the ground die.
It abides alone, but if it die, it
bears much fruit.
He that loves his life shall lose it,
and he that hates his life in this
world shall keep it to life eternal.
He that loves his life shall lose it,
and he that hates his life in this
world shall keep it to life eternal.
Let's have a word of prayer.
Dear Lord, our hearts bow before Thee.
Thou has once again exhibited Thy great love
towards us.
Thou has placed before us the cross and
You crucified.
Dear Lord, Thy love has constrained us.
There is only one way before us.
We must follow Thee.
Do show us once again the way of
following Thee.
We want to follow Thee as close as
possible.
Deliver us from the world.
Deliver us from the law.
And deliver us from our flesh.
That our whole being may be possessed by
Thee.
May Thy name be honored in
us.
Prepare us for Thy return.
Lord, we long to see Thee.
Lord, we ask Thee to come quickly.
In Thy precious name we pray.
We thank the Lord for gathering us together
these days.
Even though we seem to be talking much
about the cross, but, brothers and sisters, we
must remember that it is Him crucified.
He is the one who makes the cross
what it is today.
The cross is only a way, a means.
The only way, the prescribed way of God.
And this way will lead us to Christ.
This way will lead us to the eternal
purpose of God.
So what should be always before us is
God's eternal purpose.
Christ and His church.
So may the Lord through these days, by
going in the way of the cross, that
we may really arrive at God's eternal purpose.
We talk about the cross and the world.
Why must we be delivered from the world?
That Christ may be our world.
We talk about the cross and the law.
Why?
That Christ, His grace, may be our law.
And we talk about the cross and the
flesh.
Why must we be delivered from our flesh?
Why cannot be ourselves?
It is because we want Christ to be
all and all to us.
So dear brothers and sisters, let us have
Christ always before our eyes.
And as we look steadfastly upon Christ, He
will give us strength to take up our
cross and follow Him.
We first talk about the cross and the
old man.
The old man is Adam.
But that Adam is a corporate person.
All who were born into this world are
in Adam.
This was our position before.
But thank God, when our Lord Jesus was
crucified on the cross, the Bible tells us
that our old man was crucified with Him.
Thus we are delivered from the power of
sin.
That we may be able to serve our
God.
This is a position that we have in
Christ Jesus.
We today are no longer in Adam.
We are in Christ Jesus.
And because we are in Christ Jesus, we
were dead to sin and made alive unto
God.
This is a position that we must always
maintain by faith.
And then we talk about the cross and
the flesh.
From our position, we now come to our
condition.
From the eternal truth, we now come into
experience in the Holy Spirit.
They who are of the Christ have crucified
the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
We know that the deeds of the flesh,
the works of the flesh are very manifest.
We know that the deeds of the flesh
and the works of the flesh are very
manifest.
They can easily be seen.
But thank God, those who are in Christ
Jesus, they will walk by the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit will strive against the
flesh.
And deliver us from our flesh.
That we may live according to the Spirit.
And there will be life and peace.
Now this morning, we would like to go
a step further.
We will fellowship on the cross and the
self-life.
The self-life is the life of the
flesh.
In other words, the cross deals not only
with the works of the flesh.
The cross will go deeper into the very
life of the flesh.
Unless the life of the flesh is being
touched.
Even though the deeds of the flesh have
been dealt with, you find that the work
is still unfinished.
So we find that in the work of
the cross of our Lord Jesus, and the
work of the Holy Spirit, He will go
very deep into the very life of our
flesh.
That Christ really will be our very life.
Now in order to understand this, for the
sake especially of the younger people, probably we
need to go back to the very beginning.
And that is to the time when God
created man.
We find that in Genesis 2, verse 7,
God used the red earth, the dust of
the earth, to form a human body.
The psalmist said, Our body is fearfully and
wonderfully made.
Think that God could take the most common,
cheap material, and make a human body, which
is a masterpiece.
And by this body, we have world consciousness.
Because by this body, by the five senses,
we are in touch with the world around
us.
And the Bible tells us, God breathed his
breath of life into the nostril of that
form.
There is the breath of life coming out
of God himself.
And that reaches into that earthly form.
And that breath of God becomes the spirit
of man.
Because God is spirit.
So he breathed into man.
And that breath becomes the spirit of man.
That man will be able to communicate with
God.
So our spirit gives us God consciousness.
And then when God's spirit, God's breath, enters
into that earthly form, a third element was
formed.
And the Bible said, Man became a living
soul.
A living soul.
Because soul is where our personality dwells.
With our soul, we know ourselves.
It gave us self-consciousness.
You are what you are.
You know what you are.
It's because you have a soul.
Through your thinking, through your emotion, through your
will, your opinion, you express yourself.
So the Bible said man becomes a living
soul.
There is a created life in man.
So there is the created life in our
soul.
And make us living.
That is how we are being created.
Now when we are created, so far as
God's order is concerned, our spirit should be
at the top.
Because it is by our spirit we are
in touch with God the spirit.
Because so far as our soul life is
concerned, when it is created, it is neutral.
That is to say, it is neither sinful
nor righteous or holy.
Because at that time, that living soul does
not have the knowledge of good and evil.
So it has to look to the spirit
for direction.
It is dependent upon the spirit.
And by the spirit, he knows God's will.
That he may be able to obey God.
And work it out in his body.
So that was how we were created.
And then you remember God put man in
the Garden of Eden.
It is a garden of pleasure.
Because God created all kinds of trees.
All kinds of fruit trees.
To prepare to be the food for the
physical body of man.
And then you remember in the midst of
the garden, God planted a tree.
It is called the tree of life.
Now God has already given people a created
life.
We become living souls.
Now why is it that God should put
a tree of life in the midst of
the garden?
Because that tree of life represents the very
life of God.
It is the divine life, the uncreated life
of God.
That shows that God's heart is to give
his own life to man.
Man was created in the image of God
and after his likeness.
In other words, in the whole creation, man
is the only one who has the capacity
of receiving God into him.
And it is God's will that man should
receive his uncreated life into his created life.
And that will enable him to fulfill all
the missions that God has commissioned him.
And man will fulfill God's purpose for man.
But by the tree of life, God planted
another tree.
It is called the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
Now some people think that the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil is a
bad tree.
Because God told man, of all the trees
in the garden you can freely eat, including
the tree of life.
But this tree, the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, you shall not eat.
Because on the day that you should eat
thereof, you shall surely die.
So people think that the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil must be a
bad tree.
I wonder if you will agree with me.
I feel that God will never put a
bad tree in that garden of Edom.
So it cannot be a bad tree.
To me, I feel it is the second
best.
The tree of life is the best.
Because it gives us God's own divine life.
And if we should eat that tree, that
divine life will come into our spirit and
become the life of our spirit.
And this tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, is actually the food for our
soul.
As all the other trees are food for
our body.
There is no knowledge that is higher than
the knowledge of good and evil.
Scientific knowledge, philosophy, they cannot be compared with
the knowledge of ethics of good and evil.
That tree will be the food of the
soul of man.
Because our soul longs for knowledge.
Our soul is satisfied with knowledge.
With the knowledge of good and evil.
Now why is it that God forbids man
to eat the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil?
Number one, because he wants us to eat
the tree of life.
Number two, because he knows that without the
life of God, and if you have the
knowledge of good and evil, it will bring
you to death.
Because you know what is good, but you
do not have the life, the power to
do the good.
You know what evil is, but you will
yield to evil.
And the result will be death.
So that is the reason why God wants
people to seek after the life of the
spirit.
And by that life, he will be able
to live to fulfill God's purpose.
But if man should take the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, he will
himself decide what is good and what is
evil.
He will become independent of God.
And as Satan suggests, you will be God.
And the result is death.
But unfortunately, our forefathers, instead of eating the
tree of the knowledge of life, they took
the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil.
And because of that, the Lord said, on
the day that you should eat, you shall
surely die.
But Adam lived nine hundred some years.
And he has many sons and daughters.
In other words, you find his body seems
to be living.
And his soul seems to be living.
But what is it that was dead?
His spirit was dead.
His spirit lost the ability to communicate with
God the spirit.
What is death?
Death is the cessation of communication with his
proper environment.
When the body is dead, it has lost
its communication with the world around.
And when the soul is dead, then he
is dead to himself.
And when the spirit is dead, it has
lost its communication with the world around.
It has lost its communication with God.
So you find that in a fallen man,
what is the condition of a fallen man?
You find his spirit is dead.
It doesn't mean that the spirit does not
exist.
The spirit is still there.
But it has lost its proper function.
So that's why you find people can communicate
with evil spirits.
But they cannot communicate with God the spirit.
So man becomes flesh.
Becomes soul and body without the spirit.
And what about the life of man?
You know in the Bible, sometimes the word
soul is used as representing man.
For instance, when Jacob went into Egypt, in
Genesis it is said, 70 souls entered into
Egypt.
Because the soul represents the man.
The soul is I, is me.
Where my personality dwells.
So you find that after man fell, this
living soul, the life of that soul, is
now not only contaminated but even dominated by
sin.
And you find that instead of man looking
to God for direction, man falls
into himself.
So what kind, what nature, what kind of
life is that, is there in man?
We find that man is a fallen man.
Man is a man of the flesh.
Man is a selfish, self-centered person.
So self is the very life of the
soul.
That is our situation.
So brothers and sisters you find, if you
only deal with the deeds of the flesh,
it is just like you are dealing with
all the branches.
You have to deal with the very root
of the tree.
So we find how the cross of our
Lord Jesus, how does it deal with the
very life of our fallen man.
The life of the flesh, which is self.
So this is what you find in the
Word of God.
We find that in the Word of God,
in many, many places, life and soul are
the same word.
For instance, our Lord Jesus say, if you
love your life, you will lose it.
And that life can be translated as soul.
If you love your soul, you will lose
it.
If you lose your soul in this world
for the Lord's sake, you will gain it
to eternity.
So this matter of soul and life, are
one.
And it is actually self.
It is I.
It is me.
Myself.
So that is our conditions.
And you find the cross of our Lord
Jesus, had to dig deep into the very
core, the very life of our flesh.
This very life of the soul, which is
self, must be dealt with.
In John chapter 12, we remember that at
the time, our Lord Jesus entered into Jerusalem
for the last time.
And when He entered into Jerusalem, great crowds
followed Him.
And even some of the Greeks, that came
to the festival, they wanted to see Jesus.
It seems as if the whole world now
went after our Lord Jesus.
It was the most glorious time in the
life of our Lord Jesus when He was
on earth.
So when these Greeks asked the help of
Andrew and Philip, what
did our Lord say?
In chapter 12, verse 23.
But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has
come that the Son of Man should be
glorified.
Maybe even with the disciples.
They thought, well, this is the time that
our Lord will be glorified.
He will now sit on the throne.
He will rule over the whole world.
But then strangely, immediately after our Lord said,
The time of my being glorified is now
here.
He continued and said, Verily, verily, I say
to you.
Except the grain of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abides alone.
But if it should die, it will bear
much fruit.
In other words, the time of my being
glorified the time of being glorified to our
Lord is His death.
He is the grain of wheat.
In the whole world, you have only tares,
donalds.
Because all who are in Adam are donalds,
because all who are in Adam are donalds.
Our Lord Jesus is the only grain of
wheat.
God became man.
The Word became flesh and tabernacle among man
full of grace and truth.
He is the grain of wheat.
He said, If the grain of wheat fall
into the ground but abide alone, it falls
into the ground.
But it does not die.
It abides alone.
He speaks of himself.
Because he is the grain of wheat that
falls upon the ground.
Because he came into this world and he
takes up the form of a man.
But if he should live in this world
for thirty-three years or even shorter than
that, he demonstrated to the world what man
should be.
What is the man that God is after?
He demonstrated it.
But if he should die, he should not
die.
Suppose that on the mount of figuration and
suddenly you find he was transfigured.
Glory filled him.
And Moses and Elijah appeared and talked to
him.
And they were talking about his exit.
How will he go out of this world?
He came into this world by emptying himself
and took up the form of a man.
Now how will he be exit, exiting from
this world?
They were talking about this matter.
And as they were talking suddenly Peter woke
up.
And he saw that Moses and Elijah were
going to leave.
And he wanted them to remain.
So he blurred it out.
Lord, it is good to be here.
Let us make three tabernacles.
One for you, one for Moses, one for
Elijah.
And we would just stay here.
And God cut him off.
A cloud of glory overshadowed him.
And they heard a voice.
This is my beloved son in whom I
have my delight.
Hear him.
And suddenly Moses and Elijah disappeared.
When they opened their eyes they see Jesus
only.
Brothers and sisters, if our Lord Jesus should
make his exit from the world on the
mount of transfiguration, then there will be only
the grain of wheat.
But thank God our Lord Jesus refused to
make his exit on the mount of transfiguration.
Instead, he came down from the mountain and
faced to Jerusalem.
Because this grain of wheat not only must
fall upon the ground but it must die.
And if it dies it bears much fruit.
In other words, the outer shell of that
wheat must be decayed.
In order that the life within it may
be able to come forth.
And multiplied into many grains.
So our Lord Jesus explained this parable to
us.
And in verse 25 he that loves his
life shall lose it and he that hates
his life in his world shall keep it
to life eternal.
Our Lord is the first grain of wheat.
And you find that how he falls into
the ground and dies.
His outer man was decayed.
So, the life within him was able to
be released.
And then will produce many fruit.
And you and I are the result of
that.
The soul life of our Lord Jesus is
without sin.
His soul life is selfless.
But even he he must go to the
cross and die.
So that his life may be released and
be given to all of us.
Now how much more that our soul life
our soul self must go to death.
Because if our soul life does not go
to death then the life of Christ in
us will have no opportunity to bear fruit.
So our Lord Jesus said now if you
love your soul life that is yourself you
will lose it.
And if you hate your soul life in
this world you will keep it to life
eternal.
In this world if you hate your own
life that is soul life you must keep
your soul life.
Let us use another illustration.
If you would turn to 2 Corinthians Chapter
4 2 Corinthians Chapter
4 We
will read from verse 7 But we have
this treasure in earthen vessels that the surpassingness
of the power may be of God and
not from us.
Every way afflicted but not straightened.
Seeing no apparent issue but our way not
entirely shut up.
Persecuted but not abandoned.
Cast down but not destroyed.
Always bearing about in the body the dying
of Jesus that the life also of Jesus
may be manifested in our body.
For we who live are always delivered unto
death on account of Jesus that the life
also of Jesus may be manifested in our
mortal flesh.
So that death works in us but life
in you.
Brothers and sisters we who have believed in
the Lord Jesus we are but earthen vessels.
Look at ourselves even if this body is
so wonderfully made and yet it is earthly
in nature so we are but earthen vessels
but thank God He put a treasure in
the earthen vessel.
I always wonder now if you have a
treasure will you put that treasure in an
earthen vessel?
You will not.
You will put a treasure maybe in a
golden box but that is the wonder of
God.
He is willing to put the treasure in
the earthen vessel and the treasure of course
is our Lord Jesus.
God puts Christ Jesus into you the earthen
vessel into me the earthen vessel but
the purpose of putting the treasure there is
not for the treasure just to be kept
there unnoticed God's
purpose is that treasure the surpassing greatness of
the power of that treasure may be manifested
through the earthen vessel.
It is not the power of the treasure
the earthen vessel is opaque only the treasure
has a light so God's purpose is that
the light of the treasure may be manifested
that's just the power may be manifested but
how can it be because the treasure is
hidden in the earthen vessel unless that earthen
vessel has cracks unless that earthen vessel is
broken then the power of the treasure will
have no chance to exhibit itself now that
speaks of all of us we have Christ
the treasure in us and the power of
the treasure is going to be manifested but
we as earthen vessels our soul is like
the earthen vessel and we just imprison that
treasure within us we love ourselves and because
we love ourselves we refuse to be cracked
and we refuse to be broken we treasure
the earthen vessel more than we treasure the
treasure within the earthen vessel now is it
not true that we all love ourselves even
though we
love ourselves
the earthen treasure will arrive arrange everything around
us in order to crack us to break
us so that's why you find that in
every way afflicted but not straightened in other
words sometimes we find ourselves being surrounded we
have no way out but thank God even
though we are surrounded there is still an
upward way God opened the way to sometimes
we find that we see no apparent issue
but our way not entirely shut up I
like Philip's translation he said we
come to our witch end but no no
no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no
no no
no no no no
no no no no no no no no
no no no
no no no no no
no no no no
no
no no no no You stand up
again and continue to fight.
Brothers and sisters, I believe we have all
gone through such experiences.
You know, these are the arrangements of the
Holy Spirit.
Why is it that He put you in
such a condition?
He has a purpose behind it.
He wants to break you.
To break your self-life.
That Christ may be manifested.
So the Bible says, you bear in your
body the dying of Jesus.
And in the original it has the meaning
of you bear in your body the putting
to death of Jesus.
The death of our Lord Jesus has power.
His death is able to put you to
death.
Who wants to die?
Who is willing to die?
But the death of our Lord Jesus has
the power to put you to death.
That the life of Jesus may be manifested
in you.
So brothers and sisters, this is the way
that God has provided for us.
To break us down that He may build
us up.
What is built down is ourselves.
And what is built up is Christ.
And there is no other way.
If you try to keep your life, you
lose it.
If you are willing to lose your self
-life in this world for the sake of
Christ and for the gospel's sake.
Then you will gain it to eternity.
You will inherit the kingdom of the heavens.
And now we would like to analyze it
a little more.
We will see how the cross will deal
with every aspect of your soul life.
Your soul life, your self, is expressed in
your emotion.
Who is using your emotion?
It is your self, your soul life, that
is using your emotion.
So your emotion expresses yourself.
Your emotion is different from the other one.
And then at the same time you find
it is our mind, our thinking, that expresses
ourselves.
And it is our will, our desire, our
opinion that expresses ourselves.
And we will see how the cross will
work in these areas.
We will see how the cross will work
in these areas.
If you will turn to Matthew.
Matthew chapter 10.
We will read from verse 37.
You know our Lord Jesus told His disciples.
He said, now do not think that I
come to send peace upon the world.
He said, I have not come to send
peace, but a sword.
For I have come to set a man
at variance with his father and with his
daughter, and a daughter with her mother, and
a daughter-in-law with her mother-in
-law.
And they of his household shall be a
man's enemies.
Now verse 37.
He who loves father or mother above me
is not worthy of me.
And he who loves son or daughter above
me is not worthy of me.
And he who does not take up his
cross and follow after me is not worthy
of me.
He that finds his life, that is his
soul, shall lose it.
And he who has lost his life for
my sake shall find it.
He that finds his life, that is his
soul, shall lose it.
And he who has lost his life for
my sake shall find it.
Our Lord Jesus knows that our soul life,
our self, needs to be purified.
Even in this matter of love, human love,
which is the highest, noblest expression, you'll
find behind it is self.
It is not pure love.
It is governed by self, selfishness.
So our Lord Jesus wants to purify even
our emotions.
So he said that if you love your
father or mother, brother or sister, husband or
wife, children, even your own life, you are
not worthy of me.
You know, this is a very strict demand.
If you want to follow the Lord, if
you want to follow the Lord, you have
to be like your Lord.
You have to love Him above all these
loves.
So sometimes you'll find after we believe in
the Lord Jesus, there will be times when
the Holy Spirit will so arrange our circumstances.
Now God wants us to love our father
and mother because this is the first commandment
with promise.
In the Old Testament time, if a child
does not love his father or mother, even
curse his father and mother, he should be
killed.
So we find that God wants us to
love our father or mother.
But God wants to purify our love from
self.
So there will be times when the demand
of our Lord Jesus and the demand of
our parents seem to cut across each other.
And when you find such situation, what will
you do?
Will you love the Lord even more than
love your father or mother?
It doesn't mean that you should not love
your father and mother.
But do you love the Lord more than
your father and mother?
You will follow the Lord or you will
follow your parents?
If your parents said you should not believe
in the Lord Jesus, now will you just
obey your parents or you obey the Lord
Jesus?
And you find a cross is constituted.
And the Lord calls us to take up
our cross and follow Him.
So death will come into the love side
of your self-life.
So that our love may be purified.
And Christ will be able to express through
our love.
That is concerning our emotion.
Then you turn to Matthew chapter 16.
In Matthew 16, our Lord Jesus revealed, God
revealed our Lord Jesus to His disciples.
And our Lord Jesus revealed the church to
His disciples.
And then following that He said, I must
go to Jerusalem and be killed.
But on the third day I will be
raised from the dead.
And then you see what Peter did.
Peter got hold of the Lord and maybe
shook Him a little bit.
Don't do that.
You should not die.
And our Lord turned back and said, Satan,
get behind Me.
Because you are not mindful of the things
of God, but you are mindful of the
things of man.
And immediately following that, in verse 24, then
Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires
to come after Me, let him deny himself,
take up his cross and follow Me.
For whosoever shall desire to save his life
shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his
life for My sake shall find it.
And there you find our Lord Jesus is
dealing with our natural mind.
The mind of Peter is self-centered.
He did not want Jesus to go to
the cross and die.
Because He Himself did not want to do
that.
So you find that behind that mind is
self.
So our Lord dealt with that.
Because behind self is Satan.
So we must learn to take up our
cross in this area of our mind.
In order that we may be delivered from
it.
And then you turn to Luke 14.
In Luke 14, our Lord Jesus turned to
the cross and said, If anyone come to
Me and shall not hate his own father
and mother and wives and children and brothers
and sisters, yea, and his own life, he
cannot be My disciple.
And whosoever does not carry his cross and
come after Me cannot be My disciple.
And then following, He said, you sit down
and count your cost.
Are you able to pay the cost of
following Me?
Are you able to forsake all and follow
Me?
Not just being stirred up emotionally for a
moment.
You sit down and count the cost.
So that you make your decision.
That is to say, our will has to
be purified.
Now, if you are willing to do that,
He will give you the power to do
it.
If you are not willing to do that,
then you will not experience His surpassing greatness
of power.
So, brothers and sisters, why is it the
Lord calls us to take up our cross
and follow Him?
It is because by doing that, the self
-life, the life of the very soul of
the flesh, may die.
And the life of Christ within us may
be released and may be manifested.
So, what comes out of you, you will
be Christ and not yourself.
So, first of all, the Lord said, deny
yourself.
Our brothers have already mentioned about this.
Giving up your right.
Deny yourself.
Peter denied the wrong person.
He should deny himself.
But he denied Christ.
And how often we are doing the same
thing.
Brothers and sisters, who can deny himself?
No one can.
You know, Martin Luther said, I am afraid
of the Popes and the Cardinals.
Martin Luther said, I am afraid of the
Pope within me.
It is myself.
I am afraid of that.
Brothers and sisters, do we like Job?
Job said, I abhor myself.
How can we do that?
Unless we see the Lord Jesus.
If he should reveal himself to us, nothing
is impossible.
Brothers and sisters, when we were having the
Lord's table this morning, during the last few
days, we have talked about Jesus Christ and
him crucified.
But at the Lord's table, Jesus Christ and
his crucified are openly exhibited before us.
He reveals himself to us.
If we see him, nothing is impossible.
If we see him, we will deny ourselves.
If we do not see him, we cannot
deny ourselves.
Job saw the glory of God.
So he abhorred himself.
And repenting dust and ashes.
Brothers and sisters, this is what we need.
We need to see our Lord.
We need to see his bleeding hand.
We need to see his bleeding feet.
We need to see his bleeding head.
We need to see the blood and water
coming out of his side.
We need to hear him say, My God,
my God, why has thou forsaken me?
We need to see his love.
And only his love can constrain us to
deny ourselves.
And make us willing to take up our
cross and follow him.
So may the Lord help us that we
may not only know that our old man
was crucified with Christ, but we who are
of Christ have crucified the flesh with his
passions and lusts.
And we will be willing to lose our
flesh and our self-life for Christ's sake.
That we may follow him.
So may the Lord lead us in the
days ahead.
May he always be before our eyes.
And if we give ourself unto Jesus, by
his love, by his grace, we will be
able to follow him.
Let us pray.
Dear Lord, a sight of thee is all
that we need.
Reveal thyself to us.
That we may all rise up, forsake all,
take up our cross and follow thee.
May we be able to rise up, forsake
all, take up our cross and follow thee.
Where you are, there, by thy grace, we
will be.
We ask in thy precious name.
Amen.