[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now now turn to the book of Romans chapter three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse twenty two through twenty four.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you might as well just stay in the book of Romans.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're going to be today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter three verse twenty two through twenty four.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you can please stand for the reading of God's Word.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it says in Romans chapter three verse twenty two through through through twenty four.
[SPEAKER_00]: This righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all and upon all who believe for there is no distinction for all have sin to come short of the glory of God being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the reading of his word and you may be seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Last week, I gave you a sermon, one that was called Win and Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mentioned to you my trip to Rome, along with my mother and a few other folks you may know, some of you may not.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was January the first of the twenty fifth to two thousand one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mentioned you also that the Romani Empire began and started on the twenty in twenty seven BC until four hundred seventy six eighty.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was about five hundred three years with that the Romani Empire lasted.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and he's like, well, Grumstone exists to exist, but it's not the Empire it once was before Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a Greece.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's the Greece Empire.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Rome was greatly, greatly influenced by Greece.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Rome dominated the globe during that time.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it also dominated Israel as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see that in the New Testament.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we see that Rome, the Romans inspired many places on the globe and was inspired by some places, mostly Greece as I mentioned before.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we see that Greece inspired them through their gods and goddesses, fake gods and fake goddesses.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, it inspired them and I've been doing a lot of studying on those false gods and things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so why was you doing that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I need to know about what I speak.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I actually ordered some books about the myth of the of Greece and also Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Rome one, you know, it didn't come in, you had supposed to come in today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, oh, that's nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's okay, because I studied the one on Greece, which Rome was based off of, most of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Either way, there's twelve main gods that they believe in that came from Greece.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a few others from there, but
[SPEAKER_00]: There's other places they believe from too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So all in all, there's twelve main gods and about thirty gods in all because they took in a whole bunch.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way,
[SPEAKER_00]: While Roman down the Roman roads, you can see inspiration of the false dots that they believed in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it still affects things even today.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say, how could that be?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you'll see it's it affects many things that we do to this day that false dots and the things that Rome believed in.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, the title today's sermon is Roman down the roads of life, Roman.
[SPEAKER_00]: is built R-O-M-A-N, Roman down the roads of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do that kind of crazy stuff from time to time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, Roman down the roads of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the title of today's sermon.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Roman around in Rome is how I'll start off this sermon.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as I roam around in Rome, you see many, many buildings.
[SPEAKER_00]: And many of the buildings that you see in Rome and temples and things like that, you see are in honor to the gods and goddesses, in other words, folklore that they thought was a fact.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say, well, I don't understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, imagine this for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine that people created characters like
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this is a Superman or a Spider-Man or whatever, but they didn't teach him as comic book characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: They taught them as factual true beings.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if they taught them as true beings, and people are worshiping them as real people.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not all that different than what people do nowadays.
[SPEAKER_00]: Young kids almost worship these, make believe characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they're real, it's that they know they're make believe.
[SPEAKER_00]: But back then, they thought that they were real because they would make statues of them and people would worship them and people thought they were real.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what they would do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they thought they were gods and they would call them gods and goddesses.
[SPEAKER_00]: And someone had created these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now who could be behind such a thing?
[SPEAKER_00]: That would create confusion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who could be behind that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who we say Satan?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because there's a lot of false gods around the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not going to say this about every single false god and goddess that was an existence.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'll tell you this, the gods and goddesses in Egypt, they were true demons involved with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were true false powers and demons involved with some of the things.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I can only assume that around the world there would be some of the same situations.
[SPEAKER_00]: In Rome, though, they had many, many, many
[SPEAKER_00]: false Gaussian goddesses and every folklore that they thought were facts and people thought that they're facts.
[SPEAKER_00]: So why wouldn't there be confusion in that?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible says in Proverbs chapter twenty two verse six.
[SPEAKER_00]: He raised up a child in the way they should go in the end of what not to pardon them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So as I said earlier today in said at school, if you're supposed to raise up a child in the way you should go, so he will not departing them.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just goes to state that if you raise them up the way they should not go that two stays with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the buildings that they have in Rome is called the Pantheon.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you've heard of the Pantheon.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Pantheon is, believe or not, is a Greek statement.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does it mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in Greek, the Pantheon means of all gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lower KSG, I want to understand that everything I have written down here to them is lower KSG.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why is that important?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because we're not talking about the capital G,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Lord God, we're not talking about him.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not talking about Abba father.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so anyway, so Lord case G here, this was dedicated to all Roman gods, but it was great for of all guys, that's what the Pantheon was, to every that way, because they built all these temples, they built all these buildings, and honor of these guys, but case left in the out, let's build the Pantheon, so we could cover the rest of them, it's pretty much what they did.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let me go through a few of these gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry, we're not going to spend the whole sermon on this, but I'm going to go through a few of them for you, and I'll talk to you about some of the buildings that they built.
[SPEAKER_00]: Most of these are gone now, but they are still some ruins and buildings to some of these gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you'll see how it was.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Greek god of Zeus, you've heard of Zeus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some sure you have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zeus, that was the Greek name.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Roman name was Jupiter.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've heard of Jupiter, I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: The temple of Jupiter was there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, who was Jupiter?
[SPEAKER_00]: They thought Jupiter was the king of gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the supreme deity on Mount Olympus.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, he was supposed to be the god of lightning, the god of lightning, or the thunder god they would call him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there are other names for the thunder god in Hindu
[SPEAKER_00]: Rigveda, they would call him Dias.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Dias was his name there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then in just straight up Hindu, he was Indra.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then in Slavia, he was known as Piran.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then in North, in the North, he was known as Thor.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, in our days of the week, we have certain days of the week that are given up to these gods, one of them being Thursday, which means Thursday.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Thursday, Sunday is to the sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: God, Mondays for the moon, moon day, and there goes on and on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Saturdays for Saturn, and it goes on and on.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is where our days are, our life was affected by Rome and other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are other names too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hera, Hera, also known as Juno.
[SPEAKER_00]: The temple of Juno was, she was supposed to be the queen of the gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was Jupiter's sister and wife here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that's gross, but that was the story.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she was also the goddess of women and marriage of motherhood.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is why we're a lot of times when you hear about motherhood, they would always have a symbol of Juno.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may not realize it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I told you how we are still affected to this day by these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of these gods and goddesses to this day, when you go to certain banks, or you go to certain things, you will see symbols of these characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll just call them characters from this point on characters, because that's what they are, the characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the book that I have, I kind of liked it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just have listed his characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I like that because that's what they are.
[SPEAKER_00]: But these characters are still to this day.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll see maybe you're going to order flowers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they'll have some of these characters listed Hermes, for instance.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll see Hermes, why Hermes?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he's supposed to be one who
[SPEAKER_00]: delivered very fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you'll see him, you know, that little tin hat on flash with based off it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you'll have little feathers on a shoes, you've seen him, you know, and you've seen these characters, you just didn't know that you knew these characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you've seen Artemis, Artemis is the Greek name for Diana, that's where the name Diana comes from.
[SPEAKER_00]: Diana, there's a temple to Juno, there's also a temple to Diana, who was Diana, she was the goddess of the hunt of the moon of the wilderness, you know, Monday, it goes to her supposedly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's a Demeter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Demeter was also known series series was the goddess of the harvest and of agriculture.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there is Dionysus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dionysus was also known as liver pector, which was the god of wine making.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I had a god of everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you, bro, you're nose.
[SPEAKER_00]: They probably got a god to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why they wore a good head was the murder trial.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've got a thing next.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm just kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's probably something they would do.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had a Chora or Liberia, which Leberia, I should say, a daughter of Zeus in the meter.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a temple to her along with a few other people.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the goddess of series in Leberia and Liberia.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is on the Avatar Hill.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was destroyed about thirty-one BC.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, they had all these different temples.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had one for a few other people too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't get all that except for one other.
[SPEAKER_00]: With one other because you've heard of this character.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this character's name was
[SPEAKER_00]: let's see, was it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Heracles, let's see, is that right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, here at Heracles, and Heracles, you've known as Hercules, and so he has known as Heracles, or Hercules, I think you've heard of Hercules, haven't you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you've heard of Hercules, but as my soul, Heracles, you've heard of him, so he had a temple to him, except they called it Hercules Victor, and why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because Octavius was a man who was in charge, and he was thankful to Hercules, and why?
[SPEAKER_00]: because there is once upon a time a whole bunch of pirates came in the town and they got destroyed and he gave all his thankfulness to Hercules.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's too many other temples to name.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many temples and I studied it and it'd be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had a long list of temples to gods and kings and emperors and others at others.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's just no way I'm gonna take up the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: the name of all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is this too many?
[SPEAKER_00]: But there are other months and things that are given to people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Caesar Augustus, for instance, in a Caesar Julius, there's a July and August, you've heard of all these.
[SPEAKER_00]: This still to this day affects our calendar a month or weeks or days and yes, even space.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I will now mention you a few other names.
[SPEAKER_00]: and perhaps you can recognize these names, but you probably don't recognize them as gods and goddesses or whatever you want to call them, characters, but you probably recognize them as other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hermes was the Greek name.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's also known as, you know, we mentioned Hermes while ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's also known as Mercury in Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was known as Mercury.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aphrodite and Greek was known as Venus in Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there was another character which will get to in a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're skipping that character for now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's Aries in Greek and who was known as Mars in Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's Zeus, we mentioned him whose name was Jupiter in Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's Kronos, you've heard of Kronos, I'm sure Kronos is in Greek.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rome, he's known as Dupeper.
[SPEAKER_00]: You probably heard the word Dupeper before, that name, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: You probably see where I'm going with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: As Zeus is due, excuse me, Cronus was sadder, and I meant to say Cronus was sadder.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there is now this is going to be a little bit of a split for you, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: A little bit of a split.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Greek name is Uranus, and then Collius, Collius was the
[SPEAKER_00]: Roman name.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that one split that one's a little bit different.
[SPEAKER_00]: We go with the Greek names.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're the Roman name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we have Poseidon.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you've heard of Poseidon.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the Greek name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the Roman name was Neptune.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you hear Hades.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've heard of Hades.
[SPEAKER_00]: Guess what his Roman name was?
[SPEAKER_00]: Pluto.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not talking about the dog.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about Pluto.
[SPEAKER_00]: They used to call a planet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now they don't call it that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I still call the planet, but they don't either way.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what do we have here?
[SPEAKER_00]: We have Mercury Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's there's only one missing?
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's Earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Earth wasn't named after Greek or Latin or Rome, whatever you'll call it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Believe it or not, Earth is named after an old German word, which is when the old English called erode, which means ground or soil.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Earth is named after.
[SPEAKER_00]: Believe it or not, you're named after a dirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our planet is named after a dirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you're old dirt, but that's because we've painted on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if they had, if they had named it after a god or a goddess, it would have been after a goddess by the name of Gaia.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gaia was supposed to be a goddess called Mother Earth, or in Rome, it would have been Tara.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad they did, we're called Earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, we're ground, we're dirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we are.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the point is to this day, we're still affected by Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: but still affected by those names.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are other names to arrows or cupid.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a, a, a, a, a, a polo who's believe or not Roman name was Apollo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so least one of them got to keep his name.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for the most, there was temples to him too.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's actually two temples to Apollo.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is this, all those characters, all those main belief characters,
[SPEAKER_00]: people believe were real.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they worshiped them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why is that so bad, Pastor?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it brought confusion.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is not the author of Confusion, is he?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not the author of Confusion.
[SPEAKER_00]: We find out first Corinthians.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people don't think that's such a big deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: The folks, nowadays we get confused in all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And people try to combine the Lord Jesus in the Bible with all sorts of things nowadays.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what happened in the days of Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: People were confused.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they were worshiping Jesus kind of.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're also worshiping some more.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're also confused because they had all these false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I went through these names.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even mention all the gods and goddesses.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were stupid.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there was a god of the sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a god of the goddess of the moon.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was all these people.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had all these creators and all of this going on and all these fairy tales that they believed.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't know what to believe.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't know the right hand from the left.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so Paul had to come in and tell them the truth and they thought he was a liar.
[SPEAKER_00]: They thought that he was hypocrisy and all these other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what the world right now thinks about you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you're not the one telling a lie, you know why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the creator is speaking to you and through you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what your job is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not because you're smart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did the pastor call me stupid?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well kind of.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not because you're smart.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not smart.
[SPEAKER_00]: We do that, Pastor.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not your wisdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not my wisdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the wisdom of the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, wisdom of the Lord God and His Word.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because with you, nothing can be done for the Lord God, but with God, all things are possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we need to rely upon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this verse right here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter twelve verse two.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sticking to Romans, because that's what we do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please write now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter twelve verse two says this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what we need to worry about when it comes to all of these things, all of these false gods, all these false teachings that they were teaching.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to remember this when you start hearing a bunch of lies, whether it be political, whether it be something that you see on television, telling you all, who says you're right, it's that you're not right, but God is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter twelve verse two, which we'll talk a little bit about next week, says, do not be conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is the perfect will of God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Only the Lord can I will show you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will know that by conforming your mind to the Lord, transform it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, we don't know what's what.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know anything without him.
[SPEAKER_00]: As the song says, without him I can do nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Without him I surely failed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now turn to Romans chapter six.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter six.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it says this, and we're just gonna read the whole thing, the best I could can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter says, what shall we say then?
[SPEAKER_00]: Shall we continue in sin that grace may increase?
[SPEAKER_00]: God forbid!
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let me stop for a second here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to think about what Paul is saying to these people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I start lastly with the few of these chapters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Paul had to go and speak to these people.
[SPEAKER_00]: knowing that they had all these false beliefs, and had all these gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I got to be honest with you, studying, studying all these false gods, and I did, and I still am.
[SPEAKER_00]: They, they believe all sorts of funky things, let me just tell you.
[SPEAKER_00]: They believe a lot of funky things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I understand it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you believed that there was no such thing as gravity, because that's what you would taught your whole life,
[SPEAKER_00]: You might think that somebody would say, how could someone be so stupid?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what they're talking.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you thought that red was green and green was black, and you was taught that from the age of three to thirty-five, and at thirty-six someone comes and says, you're wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is not black, that's green.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you think, just look at this idiot.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's coming here teaching stupid things.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, hypocrisy, you know why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's what you know to be right, even though it's wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's incorrect.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know how many times people came in and learned new things about the human body?
[SPEAKER_00]: They had to come back in and correct people how about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: An uneducated society.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't know how to read or write or anything else.
[SPEAKER_00]: And teachers had to come in and completely wipe out what they thought they knew to teach in the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the devil tries to do that too.
[SPEAKER_00]: How about this?
[SPEAKER_00]: In the fifties and sixties.
[SPEAKER_00]: Especially the sixties.
[SPEAKER_00]: when they try to wipe out teaching creation and teaching the Bible on school and start teaching evolution as a fact and other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is stuff that happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Start wiping the brain with truth and start putting in false cities.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what we can do with us, take away the lies of the devil and put in truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what Paul had to do in Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now I read you, Romans chapter six, I'll read with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: What shall we say then?
[SPEAKER_00]: Shall we continue in sin that grace may increase?
[SPEAKER_00]: God forbid, how shall we who die to sin live any longer in it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you not know that we who are baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I baptize people, I put my father, but he's quoting this, is rise up and walk in the newness of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse five, for if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we should no longer be slaves to sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: for the one who has died is freed from sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if we die with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, haha.
[SPEAKER_00]: Christ will never die again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And not going to lose salvation, but here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: This doesn't mean you're not saved if you make a mistake today.
[SPEAKER_00]: This does mean, however, if you're tempted to make a mistake, where it'd be going off on someone, whether it be watching something, or doing something, shouldn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't make an excuse to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm already saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I can just say any word I want to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could just watch any filthy thing, say any filthy thing, do any filthy thing, do any wretched thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not filthy to get someone's face and give them a certain suggestion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, if you know it's sin, it's sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey man, and I know, cause I fail just like you have.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've tripped like you've tripped.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've stubbed my toe like you've stubbed your toe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've bit my tongue like you bit your tongue.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I also have the Holy Spirit, like you have the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've also hear the Holy Spirit saying, hey, big boy, or a girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can take the word big out of there if you want to.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not kind of sending one.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking myself here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But say, hey, don't do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then if you do it anyway, you got no excuse.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what's right?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what's wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you lost again?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you lost your way.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're back up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He walked in on the path that didn't much right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You was right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I digress.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll step back here.
[SPEAKER_00]: For if we have been united with him, and this verse five, for if we have been united with him, and the likeness of his death, so shall we also be united with him?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this, their old man has been crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we should no longer be slaves in it, or excuse me to sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the one who has died is freed from sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: meaning what died are also.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if we die with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Death has no further dominion over Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the death he died, he died to sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Likewise, you also consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, do not let sin
[SPEAKER_00]: rain in your mortal body that you should obey it in its lust.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but you yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your bodies to God as instruments of righteousness.
[SPEAKER_00]: For sin shall not have to minion over you.
[SPEAKER_00]: For you are not under the law, but under grace.
[SPEAKER_00]: Raise your Lord, raise you.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are not stuck to that slavery anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe right now, you feel like you still have some chains.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying you have chains to sin and the sense that you're lost, but maybe
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever played with handcuffs?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe when you scared you had toy handcuffs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're not big like I'm big.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I got great big old wrist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Big is a tree trunk sometimes, it feels like.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, we'd have a toy handcuffs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they come undone.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're playing pops and robbers or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd have to recuff them again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they pop undone and stuff them again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you're saved, you're saved from saying, you're not a slave anymore to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your cups of, come on done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quick cuff in the back again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quick, attach them again.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to keep attached to yourself and be slaves to sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to do that anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take the cups off and film at the task camp.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need them.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's are you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the key, Jesus is the key.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's freed you from them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take the cups and throw them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be done with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good, God live a smiley.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's maritus?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we Christians hang on to it like a pet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quit feeding that pet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get rid of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm not telling you to go home and kick the dog.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I am telling you this.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have a pet sin, what's there to be another show?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have a pet sin, kick that pet sin out the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not just preaching you and preaching myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, baby, howdy.
[SPEAKER_00]: verse fifteen chapter six verse fifteen what then shall we send because we are not under the law you know what long talk about the commandments what then shall we send because we are not under the law but under grace God forbid
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves to obey your slaves of the one whom you obey, rather of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what
[SPEAKER_00]: for you were slaves to sin, but you have obeyed, but you have obeyed from the heart, that form of teaching to which you were interested, and having been freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people hate to work slave.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here in America, the slave has become like the four-letter word, like all sorts of others.
[SPEAKER_00]: But folks, slave doesn't have to be a four-letter word like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I understand that literally, but what I'm talking about is the fact that not really, because it's actually fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what I'm saying is that there's more than that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is that you get
[SPEAKER_00]: people who say slave, it becomes like a foreign or word, though it isn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they think that like a curse word, well, it's not a curse word.
[SPEAKER_00]: I realized that there was slavery in America.
[SPEAKER_00]: I realized that there's curse word, it's not a curse word to them because of the slavery that happened in America.
[SPEAKER_00]: But folks, the slavery in Egypt was longer to the Israelites.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus spoke about it to them because he knew that they would understand it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now why did he use that phrase?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first of all, because when you have sin, you become a slave to that sin because you can't break free from it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in this case, the word that he's saying be a slave to God, he's saying be a servant to God, be a servant to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though we are a servant to God, it's a different kind of slavery.
[SPEAKER_00]: This kind of slavery is a free slave.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are free slave indeed.
[SPEAKER_00]: You do it by choice.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're free and you serve God because you want to serve God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now because you have to, we talk about that in Sunday school.
[SPEAKER_00]: You serve because you are free.
[SPEAKER_00]: I serve God every day because I want to serve God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just talking about this in Sunday school.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I have to go to church?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you get to go to church.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I have to read the word of God?
[SPEAKER_00]: I get to read the word of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, look, I have to force myself to read some times because I'm not the greatest reader of all time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've seen that, you've heard that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: When I get to read the Holy Spirit takes control of me, woo, send me two hours goes by.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it seems like I just got started.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the word is a living word.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love to certain Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love him, more than I love me, more than I love anything else in this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah, amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Praise God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a free thing we get to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: We get to serve the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: We get to be His servant, His slave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever word you want to you, whatever word you want to use, I'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: and having been freed from saying you became the slaves of righteousness, nineteen, I speak all saying, I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for just as you have yielded your members as slaves to impurity and in nicotine leading to more and nicotine, which is said,
[SPEAKER_00]: even so now you, your members, is slaves to righteousness unto holiness for when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse twenty one, what fruit do you did you have?
[SPEAKER_00]: Then, excuse me, let me say again, verse twenty one, what fruit did you have then from the things of which you are now ashamed?
[SPEAKER_00]: The result of those things is death, sin leads to death.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it does.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what happened with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what happened with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what happens with us as human beings.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, as a Christian, as someone who says Jesus Christ is a personal and Savior.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you sin, of course, you don't lose your salvation, but doing those things leads you away from a close personal relationship with Jesus and close you to the things that can hurt you.
[SPEAKER_00]: God isn't telling you not to do the sins because he doesn't love you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's telling you not to do the sins because he loves you.
[SPEAKER_00]: When a Mala a dad tells you not to do certain things, it's because it's trying to keep you safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus is the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one says here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse one, two, but now having been free from sin and having become slaves of God, you have fruit unto holiness and the end is eternal life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse twenty three for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Brother, if you can hand those out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Roman.
[SPEAKER_00]: down the road.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go roaming down the road.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to hand these out to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: This sermon was built up, all because there is an old witnessing tool called the Roman road.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's built on these scriptures before we close.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it's the Roman road.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted you to have the Roman road to teach to others, to share with other people in your life and everyone you meet.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted you to have these scriptures, so you too can have the Roman road to preach to others, to teach to others, to share with others, to read to yourself about salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it has an I'll be repeating some of these things, of course, as I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: After that, I put the plan of salvation as it's plainly spoken in Romans ten, eight through ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, that's why I wore the tie I'm wearing now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though the tie has Romans ten, nine through ten, I think for a state sums it up real well with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna read these two.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can read along with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the Roman road.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it says the Roman road, the road of salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, Romans three, twenty three, and I put it in order the way they have it on the road, the Roman road.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans three twenty three for all have sin and come short of the glory of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your pastor repeat says this won't quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Romans three ten three eighteen and I say Romans three ten a lot too.
[SPEAKER_00]: As it is written, there is none righteous.
[SPEAKER_00]: No not one.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is none.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no one who understands.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no one who seeks after God.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have all turned aside together.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have become worthless.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no one who does good.
[SPEAKER_00]: No not one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their throats are an open grave with their tongues.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have used the seat.
[SPEAKER_00]: The poison of vipers is under their lips.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their feet are swift to shed blood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their structure and misery are in their paths.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they do not know the way it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans, six, twenty, three.
[SPEAKER_00]: You heard this just while I go.
[SPEAKER_00]: The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: I often times, I share it's constant, on Facebook, even.
[SPEAKER_00]: The people on the internet, I always share Romans, three, twenty-three, and Romans, six, twenty-three, because they go so well together.
[SPEAKER_00]: They really do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can remember that easily.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans, three, twenty-three, and Romans, six, twenty-three.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's simple.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Romans, five, eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were, yes, sinners Christ died for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans, ten, nine, that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans, ten, thirteen, for everyone who calls in the name of the Lord, shall be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter five verse one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter eight verse one.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter eight verse thirty eight through thirty nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is number nine by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the last on the Roman road, Romans eight, thirty eight, thirty nine, for I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels, no principalities, nor powers, neither things present, nor things to come, neither height nor death, nor any other created things shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: These three verses, these three verses, are the plan of salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: and folks, why I want you to have these?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's to remember it to share with others.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might have someone in your life right now who doesn't know Jesus when you might think, I can't remember this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember word for word.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to remember word for word.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might have a thing called a smart phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might be able to say Romans chapter ten verse eight through ten or nine through ten and folks, if you can do Romans chapter ten verse nine, that's enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you can remember the rest of it, that's great too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just look it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you can't remember it, your phone will.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have a smartphone, call your good-looking bald passer with a gap between Steve and a beautiful clef in his chin.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll do my very best to help you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll do anything to help you to share the dashboard.
[SPEAKER_00]: But folks, and I'm serious here, you've never joking about to do a look in part.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this now, but it's important.
[SPEAKER_00]: That might be the last moment that person has to call Jesus to save her soul.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard so many people say some day, some day, some day, me never come.
[SPEAKER_00]: We keep putting things off.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know a guy one time he said, some day I'm gonna give my oil change, some day I'm gonna give my oil change, some day I'm gonna give my oil change, some day I'm gonna get my oil change, and then all of a sudden he's trapped with, and was gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now what if someone does that with their soul?
[SPEAKER_00]: Some day I'll get my soul change, some day I'll get my soul change, they die, their soul's burned forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not the play around with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: people do it every second of the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you think about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the plan of salvation, Romans chapter ten, eight or ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what does it say?
[SPEAKER_00]: The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the word of faith that we preach.
[SPEAKER_00]: That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: For with the heart, one believes in the righteousness and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the most important.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you only learned one scripture in your entire life, John, three, sixteen, and this, I'm telling you this would be the one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, John, three, sixteen is so very important that people misunderstand it all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this one is so important.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does this want to say?
[SPEAKER_00]: This tells you almost verbatim about salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, you're roaming down the roads.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're roaming down the roads of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may think you have ten years left.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you might have forty years left.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may have a fifty.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me have a lot more.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: You may have fifty days left.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only God knows.
[SPEAKER_00]: All I know is whether I have fifty years left in my life for fifty minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I know I'm going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the road that I'm roaming down leads to the, I'm on that thin road that leads to heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not because of me, but because of Jesus Christ, He's already saved me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you might very well be the one that God wants to use in other people's lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not because of you, but because Jesus lives in you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lay Him, lead you to speak to others and spread the word.
[SPEAKER_00]: They might be so distracted right now by all the false gods and goddesses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, but they're not even from Rome.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about literal Rome, but they might be, I don't know, but I'm not talking about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about all the other false gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: and goddesses and things are in this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they don't know that that's what it is, but it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: All sorts of distractions are to tame it and music and other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just about anything can be distraction.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we need to get our eyes right back on the road leading to heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: You pray about that and think about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe today God's led you to come forward to pray about things about your family.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe God's led you for the day to join.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe God's leading you forward to join because we come up here for the last year as we come up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you might want to come up here and pray for your family.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might have some family members right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you might think that the invitation is just for those who are lost.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the invitation is more than just for those who are lost who need to be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also praying for those in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's for you to join today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's for you who's feeling sickly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's for you to pray for your family members who you don't know where they stand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just pray to the Holy Spirit reach out to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're praying that God will use you to speak to others in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: But don't let these moments go.
[SPEAKER_00]: pray every day that God will use you going down these roads.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let me close with Romans chapter six, three, three, four.
[SPEAKER_00]: Romans six, three, four, three, four.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you not know that we who are baptized in the Jesus were baptized into His death?
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, we were buried with Him by baptism into death.
[SPEAKER_00]: That just as Christ was raised there from the dead by the glory of the Father.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even so we also should walk
[SPEAKER_00]: in the newness of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's bound for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dear precious Heavenly Father, Lord God, I thank you for this day where I can feel your presence with us, where I feel the Holy Spirit speaking to several of us, many of us, maybe even more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord God, I pray for those who are home watching, I pray to Lord God for their families.
[SPEAKER_00]: For all of our lost love ones, and by love ones, I don't just mean your family.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, our family, our friends, the people we work with, the people that we see every day out in the stores and our neighborhoods, the people that you want to come to know the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want everyone to be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't just die for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't just die for the people they church and the churches down the road.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, you died so that all could be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray right now, Lord God, that we will have that kind of a heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that God, you died for all, and that every day that we meet others, it may be you're getting under our skin, that we don't think that way, but that we will think like you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That we will think of the loving heart, that Lord God, you will use us to lead them down the road, the Roman road of salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord Jesus Christ, that we will not
[SPEAKER_00]: Get off the path, but we will continue to follow you and allow you to speak through us in Jesus Holy Name, Amen and Amen.