We turn in the Bible, the first book of the Bible this morning to Genesis chapter 17. Genesis chapter 17, found on page 15. Continuing to work through this book, and this morning we come to chapter 17, so let's give our attention to the word of the Lord. When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you and may multiply you greatly. Then Abram fell on his face and God said to him, Behold, my covenant is with you and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be called Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant to be God to you and to your offspring after you. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God. And God said to Abraham, As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. This is my covenant which you shall keep between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from a foreigner who is not of your offspring. Both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh, an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people. He's broken my covenant. And God said to Abraham, as for Sarai, your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her. And moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her and she shall become nations. Kings of people shall come from her. Then Abram fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is 90 years old, bear a child? And Abram said to God, Oh, that Ishmael might live before you. God said, No. But Sarah, your wife, shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father 12 princes, and I will make him into a great nation. But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year. When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. Then Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him. Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. And Ishmael, his son, was 13 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. That very day, Abraham and his son, Ishmael, were circumcised. And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. May the Lord bless the hearing of his word. this chapter this morning is building. It is building to a conclusion and it wants you to think about what it's building to. It's challenging us this morning to think very carefully about the response of Abraham to all that the Lord has done for him and how amazing the wonder of what the Lord has been like to him. Challenging us that way. It's building. What will Abraham, how will Abraham respond to all of this. Genesis hasn't been all that flattering to us. I mean, you go through this, it's been the waters we've had to wade through. I mean, from Adam and Eve in the garden, to Cain murdering his brother, to the decline of a society so much so that God had to destroy it with a flood, to Noah drunk in his tent, to the tower of Babel trying to take the place of God. It's been very severe rebellion after rebellion after rebellion. And then we came to mighty Abram, and my expectations were so much greater. I'm sure yours were too. I mean, we think of this pillar in the faith, this strong and this mighty warrior. I mean, the Jews thought of Abraham as so righteous that he didn't even sin. But if we listen to the story of his life, where does the bright light shine? He comes out of the land, he runs to Egypt, he lies, he loses his wife. He's been living in a real struggle for some time to learn to live by faith. And oh, chapter 16. Chapter 16 was a huge mess. I mean, they tried with their own do-it-yourself plan to get the seed. They were do-it-yourselfers. He had his own do-it-yourself plan. That was the issue of chapter 16. And put that all in contrast now where I asked, where is the shining bright light? Who is the light shining upon? Who's the real primary actor here that the text in Genesis is showing you? The Lord calls him out, makes promises to him, says, I'm going to do this. Abraham loses his wife, God gets her back, gives him the victory in the battle of the kings. After this failure last week now, this really big failure, we all kind of wondered, well, what was God's response to that? I wondered that because it wasn't given in chapter 16. What did God think about Abram and Sarai raising up and doing a plan like this with another woman to achieve the seed that's what chapter 17 is all about chapter 17 answers that it's telling you what god thought about all of that and how god treats abraham through all of that and today we see how god comes and renews his covenant and his promise of grace to abraham even doing more in other words after all of that, he just keeps on heaping up grace upon this man. It's stunning. And now he even adds a sign to all of this, helping Abraham so that he could even see something, see what it meant when he passed through those pieces in chapter 15 alone and Abram was sleeping. And the thing that you say when you study this and you look at this is, the Lord is wonderful. And that doesn't even quite capture it. He's way beyond wonderful. But I've seen a giant tug of war going on. Have you seen it? Here on in this tug, God is on one side saying, I'm doing this, Abram. I am doing this. I will do this. Seven promises announced in chapter 12, and that would be accomplished. But Abram's been pulling the rope hard the other way. And today we see God pulling Abraham to himself. And I want you to notice how he does it. It's not with a hard yank, is it? Notice how God treats him. And that's what the text is showing you. To put it plainly, God is calling Abram this morning to recognize his calling, his separation of Abram's life to himself he wants abram to recognize that and we're being challenged with that we're being challenged with that same question he wants consecration he wants commitment he wants sincere trust in what he has said because in the last scene in that failure hagar the whole thing had resulted in a real tragedy and even though she was no real innocent in some sense she was a real victim and the lord himself the lord jesus christ came and pursued her the first time we find the angel of the lord coming and it was remarkable cleaning up going after the oppressed going after the widow cleaning up their very destructive mess and so the angel of the lord rescues her even is going to make a great nation out of her but chapter 16 didn't tell us how the lord responded to abram and sarai what did he think of this how did he handle this well now we have to look very carefully at the details of the text to get into that a little bit at the end of chapter 16 what do you read abram was 86 years old when hagar bore ishmael to abram now that's setting us up because then you get another age reference in the first verse of chapter 17. What is the very first thing that you read in chapter 17? When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and you say, stop. That's 13 years. Now, what about that massive chapter 16? Well, the last chapter tells us that they dwelled in the land for 10 years. And they had become so impatient with the Lord, so impatient with his plan that they constructed this do-it-yourself plan. And they said, hey, nothing's happening. We're not going anywhere. So this is what we're going to do. This is the plan we're going to construct. Now, with that mentality, when is the next time they hear from the Lord? 13 years later. Chapter 17 and drawing these connections between years is telling us to consider that. The text is saying 13 years. And if you total this up, that is now 20 years in the land, no son. He still hasn't come. 20 years. 20 years. What were you doing 20 years ago? I know what I was doing 20 years ago. what were you doing 20 years ago? This is a message for us. What are we all about today? Quick results, aren't we? We just thrive on that. We constantly pursue that. We want instant gratification. We are the worst society that has ever existed for getting what we want now. And if not, just charge it. I've seen that mentality fill the mindset of the church today. If we see something wrong or something not going the way we should in the course of a life of a church, that always happens. It always happens. Something goes wrong. Something doesn't go the way that we should. And we think, well, if we just get this in place, if we have this recipe, or if we have this route, or this plan, or this thing, this will accomplish what we know it should be full church lots of people great name in the phone book and we do this we do this in life we do this with our children if i do everything right with my children i do everything right i follow the map i do it just how i should do it it's going to turn out what do you think in these scenarios. What do you think with that kind of mentality? What do you think happens? Nothing. And we sit back and we say, well, I just don't understand. I just don't understand. Everything's in place. Why isn't this going the way that it should be going? Why this or why that? And this is exactly what the scriptures are drawing us and telling us to think about for a moment as we open up chapter 17, that unless the Lord builds the house, the laborers labor in vain who build it. You could have everything in place. And in the case of Abram, they had done it their way. Silence from the Lord. It's trench work, isn't it, today? It's trench work in life. It's trench work in the church. There's nothing fast today. And I think, I believe that is a response of the lord to the very mentality that we see here and we see in our society get it now that's it i think there's a lot to learn here today abraham had a lot of time to reflect all these years still no child and we wonder what he must have thought the problem only compounded i mean it got worse humanly speaking he's now almost 100 99 years old sarah is 89 to 90 the text is showing you an impossibility, humanly speaking. And chapter 17, before the Lord, and this is what I believe is the real point here this morning, before the Lord was ready to build and start the project, before the Lord was ready to get this going, Abraham and Sarai's heart needed to be dealt with. And we can ask that in any kind of circumstance of life. The heart of a church needs to be dealt with. The heart of parents need to be dealt with. The heart of children need to be dealt with. You could put every single thing in place. You could have everything down to the Christian school doing it how everyone tells you to do it, but without reliance on the Lord, without a trust in Him, what good is it? What good is all of your mapping and all of your planning and all of your writing of checks, all those things. It would all be selfish. Can't be that way. And so what we have here is God calling Abram, who had been justified now, and what is God saying to Abram? Listen to what he's saying and think of how much this applies to us here where we are in all circumstances. Abram, who's been justified by faith, is now being called to a walk of obedience and trust in the lord to fulfill the promises in his timing and in his way and that's the pattern for us that's the pattern for us we are being trained right now with the crosses that come with the trials that we are afflicted with and since we want it all fixed now we go through periods of what seems to be absence from the lord or periods of chastening and the lord tells you in the scriptures consider that Because afterward of that period, after all that period, what does Scripture say? It yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who've been trained by it. So this is where we are. The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless. God comes to Abram with just the word that he needed to hear. I am El Shaddai, first time we come across this. i am el shaddai the name translated here god almighty telling us as generally received even though there's debate about the name generally received in context that this means god is telling abram i am powerful abram i am your powerful god and the whole sense of this is to reassure abram after this time period that he has the power to accomplish what he had promised your life and my promises are in my mighty hand to uphold and to fulfill and the thing that you should notice here is the way that he comes to abram i really love to consider the way that the lord speaks to abram i will establish my covenant with you this is a kind of admonishment because abraham had just done the thing himself in other words keep hagar in your mind and you understand why the Lord is speaking this way I am El Shaddai Abram I'm the one cutting the covenant and notice then he rehearses all the blessings of chapter 12 again I mean he just keeps saying this over and over and over again I am here's what I'm doing for you I am going to make you fruitful nations are going to come from you. Don't you love verse 7? I just love verse 7. I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also, I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan as an everlasting possession and I will be their God. This is bigger than you, Abram. I'm going to do this for millions of your children. I'm going to be your God and I'm going to be their God. Who's doing all the talking here? That's a sermon I'd like to sit through, wouldn't you? It'd be an exciting sermon. You're kind of getting it right now, by the way. He goes on and he says, the land is yours for an everlasting possession and your descendants. I am your God and their God. I am your covenant, Lord. I am committed. I myself have committed myself to fulfill the promises and to give you salvation. Do I have to remind you at this point of chapter 16 again? That was awful. Now, this is important. He's reminding Abram of what chapter 15 illustrated and declared to him. If Abram had passed through those pieces alone, remember he was sleeping and God passed through and he cut the covenant of grace if Abram had walked with him do you realize chapter 16 would have been the end of Genesis notice that he was asleep and God is teaching Abram the whole thing he's teaching us that the whole covenant that he is establishing with us operates on the principle of his grace and that we always have to be reminded of that. And notice how that is coming out in the way that the Lord speaks. He's not motivating change in Abram through judgment. I don't find it here. I find it with Israel, but I don't find it here. I could do that today. I've heard the approach of this. Here's the grace of God. Here's the gospel. I'm not really sure you guys deserve it. I don't know if I should really give it to you today. Have you been good enough this week? I've heard a lot of preaching like that. It has that vein. Notice how God's treating him. Abram, I am your God. I'm going to do what I promised. I'm El Shaddai for you. And in this vein, now listen to how he's calling Abram to himself. it's really powerful walk before me and be blameless do you hear it i am god almighty i'm el shaddai walk before me and be blameless that i may make my covenant between me and you and may multiply you greatly this is what i've determined to do and think about what the lord is i've already said i'm doing it i've already determined i'm doing it i've already shown you that i'm going to do it i'm telling you i will do this and so therefore you must be consecrated to me you're done doing things your way it's over you must be consecrated all loyalties all other gods all other ways done abram time to end i'm calling you to be whole i am calling you to surrender to give loyalty to me as your God because this is what I'm doing. It's amazing because ultimately, as the Scriptures pick up, he's speaking to him as a friend. He's not speaking to him as a slave under the law. And that's why Paul really would pick up on this kind of covenant. It could never be annulled. The law could never annul this. The arrangement at Sinai could never attack this. God had unconditionally, in terms of what Abraham would do, unilaterally decided to do this. But you see, one of the works that God is committed to in your life and in my life is a life of what? Faith and repentance. Do you realize that what Genesis 17 is, it's an explanation for you of what covenant life looks like? It's an explanation of you of what the Christian covenantal life looks like. to put it in theological terms abram was justified therefore he hasn't taken since that time very seriously the call to be consecrated to the lord and now the lord is saying enough abram time to take serious sanctification and so you have abram fall on his face in verse 3 and god talked with him doesn't he i love to emphasize that as one talks with a friend you had that language with Moses. God talked with him. Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be called Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. To make this real to him, the Lord continues to heap on grace, and then what does he do for him? He changes his name. your old life's done. I am giving effectual grace. That old way of doing things is done. You're done with the old man, Abram. And it's very amazing when you think about it because Abram's name meant exalted father or father, you could say even of one, which he had just tried. And now the name of Abraham meant a father of a multitude. And so every time Abraham would hear his own name, he would be reminded of the change that the Lord made. And even in his name, he would have to be confronted with God's promise and believe and remember what God had set him apart to. That's an amazing moment in the life of Abraham, isn't it? And now I can say, Abraham, your life's mine. My promises, hinged upon my faithfulness to fulfill, will make you a father of a multitude. Done. Your name's changed. And I want you always to remember that about you. He does the same with Sarai. With some pun on princess here, he's showing the difference, meaning Sarah, the old name looking to the past and the new name looking forward to her descendants. Isn't this everything about romans 6 that we studied isn't this everything about the new life that god constantly is telling the believer that he has now when he describes that he has saved us by grace and he's called us with a holy calling and that he's justified and that he's made us brand new creatures and that he's given us what a completely new identification old things have passed all things are new. A new name even given to you in the true Adam. I will fulfill what I've said. Drop the rope. Drop the rope. I love this because it really does speak of the uprooting of our own lives. And this is a message to us this morning. All of us who've received this grace and who have known this, it's a message to walk worthy of the calling with which you've been given. It's a calling now to take seriously this life of consecration. How many of you have been here throughout the course of your life and listened to the gospel message for years? And the Lord has explained to you over and over that when you believe, He freely acquits you and forgives you. You've heard that message. Boys and girls, you've heard this message. You're hearing it right now. i don't doubt that if it was true with abraham that there are some sitting here today who are playing real fast and loose with this whole thing i don't doubt that they don't take it seriously and the lord is saying you think i don't see that you think i don't see it and he's not coming to you today and saying, do this or else. That's the old fire and brimstone guy. What is he doing to you? How is he motivating you? Be consecrated to me. Stop. Enough of your old self. You're living in a way that stands opposed with what I have called you to be. Look at the Lord. Fix your eyes on him. That's what the text is telling you today. Look at what he's determined to do. Believe him and put aside the foolishness i gave my son for you says the lord i didn't pin him to the cross for you to go and act and do that see i did that for you to be something different you're saved from the wrath to come act like it and that's how ephesians always motivated the new obedience you've done enough you've spent enough of your past lifetime walking in drunkenness and sexual morality. We could go through the list. You're done with that. Stop it. Wake up. And there's always these moments in Scripture where it really comes powerfully, where the Lord is saying, wake up. It's high time. Wake up out of sleep. You're sleeping. It's all over the New Testament. Or you could open up the Heidelberg, which very first thing you confess, which is taken from Scripture, I am no longer my own, but I belong, body and soul and life and in death. to my faithful Savior who died for me. What I love about this account is I could stop here today, but I want you to see the whole. I want you to see what the Lord does. He's not even done at this point with wooing Abram to himself and motivating Abram to just drop the rope. Notice what he does in verse 9. God said to Abraham, as for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. This is my covenant which you shall keep. Between me and you and your offspring after you, every male among you shall be circumcised. It's a sign between us. I want every male in your house, eight days old, the Lord says, to be circumcised as an everlasting covenant. Anyone who refuses that is to be cut off. Here, Abram, I'm going to do something for you. I'm going to give you a sign between us. I know you need to see something. I'm going to give you a sign so that you would know that you are set apart to me and that I will fulfill what I've spoken. And you can always be reminded by that sign of what I've done. We all know what circumcision was. The Lord describes it here in the text in verse 11. I want that done to all the males. What did that mean? Well, it was a bloody sign, and you know where it was cutting away to teach Abraham that from him would come the promised seed who would be cut off. In other words, that sign was always to teach Abram what God would do for him, but that it would come from his body, the Lord's way, in the Lord's timing. from his own body, God would send his son. And Abram was always to remember that. The whole sacrament became a response of faith and repentance, so much so that Paul would really want to make sure, because the Jews mingled all this up, make sure that that was given after Abram was justified so that it wasn't the act of circumcision that justified him. It was assigning a seal of the righteousness that came by faith. Abraham believing the promise that he trusted the Lord to fulfill what he said he would do. And then comes something that must have overwhelmed Abraham that moment when the Lord said, I'm going to do even more for you. I want you to give this to all of your children too. Do you ever stop and think about just what the Lord told him to do? I want you, Abraham, to give this to your children and I want you to teach them that this is for them too. I don't want them playing fast and loose and sowing their wild oats, making their own decision to come to me. I don't want that. You tried that. I don't want your children trying that. You see this? I want you to trust me and consecrate them from birth. I want you to teach them something different. than the world teaches their children. I want those little ones sitting next to you to know that they belong to me too because they came from you. Your whole life is consecrated to me. Even what comes from you is consecrated to me. All of your children, I want them to trust me and that you would call them to be consecrated and set apart to me from birth. And that everyone should be saying right now is, wow, what an amazing God. I'm overwhelmed because if you get this, the very thing God was teaching Abraham, think about this carefully, the very thing God was teaching Abraham is he can't produce the seed himself. He tried it. And in the very place where he tried it, God consecrated it. And then he illustrated that and said, I want you to do this throughout all your generations to your infants. I want you to do that because I want he had to trust God that God would even help him with his helpless children. You see how the sign is a sign of God's work, testifying to God's work, testifying to his promise. For Abraham and his children, the whole work was dependent upon El Shaddai, the strong one, to fulfill. So imagine this. Every time an eight-day-old infant was brought, the whole family of Abraham was reminded that their children were not free to make a choice like Abraham had tried. That they were set apart to God and that they were always to be taught to serve the Lord. And as they grew up with all of these covenant blessings, a home where parents loved the Lord and they trained the children and gave themselves, they were to embrace, just like Father Abraham, the promises of the gospel. Resting in Jesus. The very circumcised heart that the Lord was always after and was declaring to Abraham that he has the power to produce. And if someone said, no thanks, I do not want to give that to my children, that person was denying the one who would come from the body of Abraham to be cut off for our sin. That's why it was serious. It was to repudiate grace. Isn't the Lord amazing here? You can't do this. Your children can't do this. But I will raise up from your own body one who will do this. and I want you to set apart all your children who come from your body with that sign so that they would know that you, I am your God, and that I am their God. You know, the same is true today with us in baptism. We don't need a bloody sign, blood's done, but we need a water sign. God knew that we needed something to see, and so he gave us this water sign, and in this very wide, gracious extension of the covenant of grace to the ends of the earth, What an amazing thing. God never said, now leave your children out. God said, Pete through Peter in Acts chapter 2. It's for them. It's still for them. Include them in this. I don't want you ever to think that this, you should teach your children that this is about them trying what you have tried. I don't want your children ever to grow up with the whole wild, sowing the wild oats mentality. Don't, no, no, no. No, I've put my mark on them and I want you always to train them to learn about me and about sovereign grace and how I work and what kind of God I am to you. They need to know that. They're sinners. They need that too. Praise El Shaddai for that kind of grace. So covenant life has just been explained. What's going to happen? Verse 17. Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed. Not a good start. Shall a child be born to a man who is 100 years old? Shall Sarah, who is 99 years old, bear a child? And Abram said to God, Oh, that Ishmael might live before you. Just give it to him. He laughs, and I still believe that's a stumble, even though the New Testament makes clear that he never really wavered. And the Lord comes immediately, and what does he say? No, Sarah, your wife, your wife, your wife, your one flesh coming from your body, Sarah will bear the child. And guess what? Since you laughed, I'm going to make a little pun of this. Your son's name will be called Laughter. That's what Isaac means. So all your days you mention Laughter, you're going to remember that you laughed at my promise. In Isaac, your seed shall be called Abraham. And in verse 21, we read of the Lord saying, Next year at this time, I will visit, and she will have a son. And the Lord goes back up. And it climaxes in verse 23 with everything that the Lord had called Abraham to do to keep his covenant. He does it right here. He believes. And then what does he do? He circumcised himself and all his household. A way of saying, I believe you, Lord. I trust you to do what you said. I'll keep your covenant. Here's my question this morning. Are you learning the Lord yet? You know, Paul talked about learning Christ. You've not so learned Christ in the old manner of life. When you learn Christ, it propels and drives a new way of life. Have you learned Christ yet? Have you learned what He's like to you? Have you learned how He treats you? Have you learned what He's done for you? Do you hear His voice when He says, in all of your messes and in all of your failures, come to me. I'm calling you to come. My yoke is easy and my burden is light. Come. I'm not speaking to you as slaves, I call you friends, so therefore be this. And Paul would write in Colossians, in him you also were circumcised. See, you were circumcised, do you realize that? In him, in Jesus, you also were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands. By putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him, through faith in the powerful working of God who raised him from the dead and you who were dead in your trespasses and the circumcision of your flesh, God made alive with him having forgiven all our trespasses. And then he goes on to say, therefore, be a new creature. So where are you today? There's two general responses. The first would be, the grace of God really hasn't touched me yet. I don't care about any of this. I just go do whatever I want to do. And as you raise your children, probably none of this means very much. That's one possible way, but why would you do that? Why would you ever want that for you and your children when the Lord is saying this? Then there are those who come with open hearts because they have been deeply affected by their sin and they know that they've played fast and loose with this whole thing for a long time. And they've heard the call of the good shepherd. They've believed the gospel. You've been freely justified. And now a great desire is upon your life to be consecrated to him. He will not leave you alone in that. And if you don't believe that, look at the sign he's put on you. Many of you from being babies. And you should stand back from that today and say, my, that's a lot of grace. Here's what the Lord says to you today. I will establish my covenant with you. And Jesus said, this is the new covenant in my blood which was given for you. When he died, it was established and you enjoy it now. Therefore, be separate to me. I am your God. You are my people. Give that sign to your children, by the way. They need it too. It's not a light thing to deny that. This new identity means everything about you and your children belongs to me and therefore go forward now in this calling with what I've called you to be. And so the Lord says to you today, I am El Shaddai. Walk before me and be blameless. You'll lack no good thing. Let's pray together. Oh Lord, our God, we praise you and yet we ask for forgiveness that we don't take seriously as we should that calls to holiness. And we are overwhelmed with the way that you treat your servants and how you speak to us and how you so tenderly, graciously woo us to you and we just drop the rope today because that kind of grace motivates us to respond and to bow before you and to say, O Lord, El Shaddai, give us the grace to walk before you and to be blameless. we praise you today that you care to instruct us that you are our God and that we are your people oh may our children know you circumcise their hearts wash them by your powerful spirit and give them life may we be a community that calls together on the name of the Lord as a holy separate people in Jesus name we pray Amen Thank you.