Abraham's death / sons of Ishmael & Isaac
Genesis 25 · Vern Peterman · Sep 14, 2008
Genesis, No. 35
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/4926111446769

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

Some I thought I'd point out that this oldies party that's over at our place here, that refers to the songs. Everybody here is young. Everyone's young. So no question about that. It's the songs that are old. Also, depending on what age you are, oldies means different things. Okay, we're moving on into this. Pardon? Oh, yeah. One other point. Children are indeed invited, so they're very welcome. And it'll be lots of fun for all.

As we move into Chapter 25 here, we're coming to almost to the halftime, okay? The halfway point here with 25, 50 chapters being in Genesis. As we've stepped through the life of Abraham at the very end of chapter 11, we've introduced the name of Abraham in chapter 12. We begin with God's promises to Abraham and we see Abraham moving from his home city of Ur in what is now the Persian Gulf area over to Israel and even by the end of chapter 12 into Egypt.

We've seen him step through a number of different communications with people, even with the Lord communicating with him. The angel of the Lord himself coming to speak with him in numerous times and places. We see after a long promised blessing of a son, Isaac born, not too many chapters back here, and we see both Sarah and Abraham recognizing that that's certainly a picture and demonstration of the Lord's faithfulness. We've seen as we've stepped our way through the chapter chapter after chapter that the Lord even asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, not that he in the end asked him to actually carry it out, but to test his faith and to have Abraham come to a place, and even cooperatively of Isaac, come to a place of recognizing that God would provide.

God is faithful. And finally, after the death of Sarah, we come to the end of Abraham's life in this chapter and Abraham himself being buried in the same cave of Machpelah as Wayne read for us in what is now the city of Hebron. After Sarah died, Abraham took on a wife, Keturah, and had other sons by Keturah.

And these, in due time, however, were not kept around the household, but in order to assure that Isaac, the promised one, would be the heir, he sent the others away. Don't worry, they're not little ones. He sent the others away. as they grew older, with a gift. In other words, they're supplied for and provided for, but sent them away so that Isaac alone would be his sole heir. In the laws of the day, in order for a person to be an heir, they had to stick around the home and they had to help support and provide for the father in the last days of his life.

And so by sending the others away, Like I say, with a gift, this isn't just cruel sending them off, but with a gift, he was assuring that Isaac, the promised one, the one that God intended to be the heir, would indeed be that heir. For Abraham to place Isaac as his sole heir by sending the others away was in keeping with God's promises. This is what God had declared. No, not Ishmael. No, not these others. Only this one Isaac.

It was Abraham's faith in God's promises. So Abraham kept Isaac as his heir by faith. It was trusting entirely in God's provision and God's promise. that led him to do that. Since we started there back in Genesis chapter 11 up till this time, God had made promises to Abraham. He started just right off in chapter 12, verse 3 verses. These promises, as we pointed out, are entirely by grace. It wasn't because the Lord came to Abraham and said, Abraham, because you've really kept all the things I've desired pretty well.

I mean, I have a score down on my grading card here of 97.3%. That's good. No, he didn't say that. He said, this is my promise unilaterally. This is my promise unconditionally. It was entirely by grace, not dependent, not dependent upon Abraham's behavior or Abraham's counter promises.

Three primary areas where the Lord promised Abraham for land, seed that is offspring, and blessing. To bless. Those three areas. Those promises are still being fulfilled now. You might wonder, why does the Lord have everybody still here? You know it's because the promises to Abraham are still being fulfilled. That's why. And the earth has at least 1,007 years to go. Why? Because of fulfilling the promises to Abraham. That's why.

Our blessing, those of us who are here in the church this morning, who are in Christ because we put our trust and faith in Him, our blessing comes from those promises made to Abraham. Isn't that something? Our blessing, yes. The ones that you and I have.

We love to refer to Ephesians 1.3, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Those blessings, the every spiritual blessings that we have, roll off of the promises to Abraham.

One of the things that I'll point out here, something we've shown in the past, this section here starting in the verse 19 of chapter 25 on for another about 10 chapters is what is known as a chiasm. That is, it's a literary mirror image. And you have that. I've shifted that to page 2 of your handout so everything would fit. It's a mirror image in writing for the next roughly 10 chapters ahead of us here.

Now, and this is not in your handout, back when we studied in Galatians 3, 6-9, it says there, Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. Are you of faith here this morning? Then this says you're sons of Abraham. The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed in you. So then, those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer. The point we wish to make is this. Those who have the faith of Abraham, the very faith we've been reading about here in these chapters, Verse 6 here points to believing God, are blessed, since faith in God is counted by God as righteousness. How does a person get declared righteous by God? Does God keep a scorecard of how many times you've come to church this year? I hope not. I was gone last Sunday. Is that what he's talking about? No. It's faith. We are saved by faith, by faith, by faith, by faith. That's it.

You have, as I understand it, in your bulletin and with your handout, a tract. I'd like to ask Gene to come up here and help us out. We had previously, this is several weeks back, had this handout. We have additional copies available if you weren't here or have lost track of this handout. How do we approach someone with the gospel? The tract that I've asked Gene to present here is One here we have page by page on a slide, and it's one that could be indeed a very useful tool for presenting the gospel. Certainly not the only means, but it could be a useful tool, and so I'd like Gene to present it.

Alright. We have talked about the approach in previous sessions, and as Brother Byrne has said, We don't present this message, you know, we don't cast our pearls before a smile, but being in communion with the Lord and fellowship with Him each moment of each day, He's going to give us opportunities. Evangelism is not a project. It's a way of life. Every day, as we have opportunity, we do good to all men. We share the goodness of the Lord. Wait, wait, wait. You mean I don't have to get a big stadium full of people and speak in front of a stadium full of people? No. No? No. Oh. A little one shall become a thousand. Oh, okay. Just one moody.

I mean, the Lord can give to us. And so, now, in my years, I have a few, of looking at tracts and of taking seminars in several cities from various presenters of evangelism, I have found this to be the most helpful for me in presenting the gospel. And so, if you'll look in your tract as we go through, Let's say we've come to the point where the person has said, yes, you may, he's given us permission to share. And so at this point, then we can go down and say, or another way, you know, to enter into this is to say, by the way, you know, go to those spiritual questions that we have given you. And after we do that, and they have given us permission, so to speak, then we can start here. The Bible contains both bad and good news, and the bad news is about you, and the good news is about God.

Yesterday, I had a little boy in my office at home, our studio, and he was done with his music lesson that I'd given him. I said, you know, he goes, you go to church, yes? Go to church. What church? He didn't know. But his mother was late picking him up, so I couldn't resist the opportunity of sharing the gospel. So I took the little track out of my pocket. I try to keep tracks in my pocket or in my wife's purse. But anyhow, he says, yes, I said, do you know that you're a sinner? I got to this, have you ever lied? Oh yes, he said, I've lied. So we went on and I took him through this. Well, and I said, you know, suppose you and I stood out there and tried to throw a rock to Pike's Peak. And which of us would get there? Neither one of us. I said, you can probably throw it farther than me, because you look stronger than me.

And so in word, thought, and deed, we've all sinned. And so then we go to the next. The bad news is getting worse here. The penalty for sin is death. The wages. Suppose you work for me, and I paid you $50 for a job. And that would be your payment, your wages. Now the scripture says the wages of sin is death. The soul that sins shall surely die. The soul that sins shall surely die. Do you have to give them the bad news? Can't you just skip that part? Why do you have to give them that part?

If we look at Paul's teachings in the New Testament, concerning sharing, he often went back to Genesis, to the Creator, and to things that happened at the beginning. And so we need to get that foundation today, especially so many of our children don't even know what sin is in their mind. They don't know who God is. And Paul often spoke of the Creator when he shared the gospel.

Well, so what you're telling me then is you need to tell them this so that they have an understanding to realize why Christ would die. Otherwise, it seems kind of strange. Why does Christ have to die? Yes, that's it. Alright, so that's it. So they need to have the bad news in order for the good news to be good news. That's it.

They need to know that we have a death penalty upon us. as sinners that must be paid and we can't do it. And since we can't do it, God came to us and Christ came to us. And that's the first good news. Christ died for our sins. And Romans 5, 8. But God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Now suppose that you were in the hospital, you had cancer, and you were about to die. And I came and I said, let's have your cancer transferred to my body. Gladly. Suppose that could happen. Suppose that could happen. Then what would happen to me? Well, then you would die, because you had it. Yeah, and then you would live.

And that's what has happened spiritually. Christ has died in our place, paid that death penalty that every human being owes, that death penalty. And it's a wonderful thing to know that He has done this. Now, as the bad news got worse, so the good news gets better. You can be saved through faith in Christ. I can be saved through faith in Christ, just like Abraham. Suppose somebody says, yeah, but I'm not all that bad. I haven't killed anybody. I've never been arrested or something. Not too many times.

So, you know, why do I need this? Scripture says not by works of righteousness that we have done, but all of our righteousnesses are filthy rags. I mean, so as good as I can be, it's going to be in God's sight, His standard, we come short of that glory of God. Oh, OK. I'm glad you said that. All right. So some people do think I'm religious. I go to church. Well, those are OK things. But that won't pay the penalty that needs to be paid for one's sin. So it's a wonderful thing to know that Christ has died in our place.

And so that's the point of Ephesians 2.8.9, that it's not my works, but it's His. It's something that He's done, and we accept this by faith.

So is there anything keeping you from trusting Christ right now, is the question we ask. And I did the same to this little boy yesterday. Went through these sayings. And of course, he said, no, there's nothing. And do you want to trust Christ? I said, he said, yes. And then, so I said, well, would you like to pray and ask God? I'm going by this outline, so to speak. I would like to add, just tell God what you're doing, that you're trusting in Christ.

Now this is the hardest part, I think one of the hardest parts about evangelism is getting started and then finishing. And this kind of puts it all together and helps it come to a closing. So you wouldn't recommend that people just jump to the prayer? No, I think we need to make sure that they're saying, would you really like to trust Christ? So that they understand what they're saying. Yes, we want to make it clear. And all we can do, folks, is just to realize that God's still working. It's still a day of grace. He's not willing that any should perish. It's still a day of grace. We can share the word, and the fields are ripe unto harvest.

And we just tend to be so afraid of what's going to happen if we say something. Well, this mother, for instance, came to my mind, well, I wonder if she'll quit the kid and not have him take music lessons from me anymore. Well, you know, we have all kinds of fears that come through our mind. We're not recommending anybody to take and steal their boss's time at work to witness, but you get coffee breaks and you can ask probing questions at that time and find out where people are.

And we just need to have a love for the Lord and love for people. So we just need to remind them then when they pray that it's not the prayer that's going to save them, it's trusting Christ. And so this prayer is a wonderful sinner's prayer, and you can see it there.

And so then you go over with them, just what has happened now? What has happened? And then you ask them, you give them John 5, 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life. And then you can ask these questions. Did you hear God's word? And then, did you believe that God said what He said, and did you trust Him as your Savior? Does it say, has everlasting life? Does it say, shall not come into condemnation? Does it say, has passed from death to life? Help them to see and get assurance through that verse, John 5, 24. And then you tell them and show them how they can go on and grow in Christ. And so, getting in the Word and fellowshipping with other believers and such things.

And there's times when you don't have time to share all this. But we just have to take the time. Like yesterday, I could not do any follow-up work with this young man. His mother came, and I talked to her. I said, I shared this with him, and he trusted Christ as his Savior. She says, Amen. You know? And she took the track herself, and who knows, she might just be a churchgoer that's never known whether she can really go to heaven or not. So, there are so many things that we can do if we'll just be available. And, you know, it's just amazing.

We went to Sturgis, my wife and I. We didn't go on a motorcycle. No Harleys! Okay, alright. Oh, about a month ago. I'll tell you, we got to share the gospel with a lot of bikers. And, you know, it's just exciting. It makes my hair just go up. Which one? Thanks. Yeah, these tracts are offered as a tool. I think we have some additional copies of those. I have also conversational tracts that are great if you're spending a lot in a safe way. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. An instance I'll share briefly. As Nancy and I were engaged, I worked up at my folks' farm for a few months during that period. And I worked alongside a guy who had just become a believer.

His name was Russ. Russ had been working on the Yosemite National Park trail crew. And he was getting together one evening just ready to sit down with the rest of the guys to drink beer and smoke marijuana. And all of a sudden just something gripped him and he walked off into a nearby clearing and there was a gospel tract laying on the ground. And Russ picked it up, read it, became a believer. That was it. And so that sure changed his evening. But Russ then came, somehow he got in contact with our family and so he and I worked alongside each other on the farm.

He wrote a letter to his girlfriend, Ann. and said, Ann, I'm a believer now and I can't live the way I have with you in the past and so we've got to break up. Well, as soon as that letter reached her, where she was back in Atlanta, she called up on the phone. She says, don't go anywhere. I've been looking for God my whole life. And she got on the next plane out, rented a car and drove from San Francisco up to our podunk ranch out in the middle of nowhere.

And we stay it up to about two or three o'clock in the morning, telling her the gospel without a tract. So the Lord can use the tract. The Lord cannot use the tract, however he sees fit. But we just want to make sure that you have the tools so that you can present the gospel, whatever the opportunity is that the Lord puts in front of you. That's what counts. OK.

Moving back into our passage here, here's Abraham. We've stepped through this chart here of Abraham's ages. You have that chart on page one of your handout here. And this is now the last part of Abraham's ages. where Abraham dies. And one of the things that's interesting, it has a little line in there about him being full of years and satisfied with life.

Now, what does that mean? What does that mean? I mean, after all, he's dying here. You'd think that that's some sort of a traumatic event and difficult. But you know, it doesn't have to be. It can be a time when you say, oh, the Lord has done what He intends to do. My oldest brother died of colon cancer about 16 and a half years ago.

And I met with him about a week before he died. And I brought my guitar along and played a few songs that he and I sang together. And then I could tell after about three or four songs he was done. But when I stopped playing, we stopped singing, he said, He said, Vern, I'm ready for what's next.

I'm ready for whatever the Lord has next. I think that's probably what Abraham had here. This has been a life that the Lord has learned and used in my life. I've learned from it. Did I make some mistakes? Oh, yeah. But the Lord has been phenomenally gracious.

And my life has had depth and purpose and meaning And because this life is over, I'm not done. Matter of fact, this is just the beginning. Hebrews says that Abraham was looking for a city with foundations. Abraham died, but that was really only the beginning. And his life was not a, oh, I wish I had, but I'm glad I did. I'm glad I did.

So here in the city of Hebron, as we showed just a couple chapters back with Sarah, Abraham was buried. It said in chapter 23 that Sarah was buried there in the cave of Machpelah. And now here in the first 11 verses, the events are recounted leading up to his death. And it tells also in those verses of his burial there. Sarah, of course, was buried there, Abraham, and those we'll see as we study the rest of the chapters in Genesis, Isaac and Rebekah, Leah, and Jacob as well, buried there in that same cave. Here is kind of an aerial view, and this is where, during the time of Herod the Great, this structure was built over that cave of Mount Pila.

You have on the bottom of page one a family tree, and it's kind of interesting. We've simplified a lot of things in order that you might see some things. The complexity would lose it. But here is Abraham, whose son Isaac, as we read in this account, is now not only born but married. And before the account is over, we'll have two adult sons. Jacob being of course one of them and he will have 12 sons from whom the Israelites are all descended.

What's interesting as you step your way through this, here are the Moabites and the Ammonites. These are two sons of Lot by Lot's daughters. The Moabites and the Ammonites fought against the people of Israel as they exited Egypt and were headed for the Promised Land and remember they hired Balaam. Also in the period of the Judges, this is the period of time right after they entered the Promised Land, each of these nations had an opportunity to oppose the Israelites. The Ishmaelites, remember Ishmael was the son of Abraham through Hagar, the Ishmaelites were also ones who opposed the Jews at numerous places.

By the way, it's happening right now. One of the things we've said previously, and it shows up in this very chapter, is we could wish that the policy makers in Washington had read Genesis thoroughly and understood what was happening. The entire Middle East, and what you see on this chart right in front of you, is one big 4,000-year-long family feud. It's the Hatfields and the McCoys, carried on for centuries.

The Amalekites were another group here, descended from Esau, and the Amalekites were another group that fought against the Jews as they left Egypt and headed for the Promised Land. The Midianites, likewise, another group that opposed the Jews. And then you have other groups of Semites.

Those are descendants of Shem. Remember the three sons of Noah? Shem, Ham, Japheth. So it's the descendants of Shem. Those are the Semites. And finally, other Semites there. So what you have, oh, I forgot one almost. Here's the Edomites, okay? And I didn't mention the termites either, but the Edomites here are descendants of Esau who dwell in what is now the southern part of Jordan, okay? So you have the Ammonites and the Moabites in the northern and middle part of Jordan, and now the Edomites in the southern part, okay? And the last Edomite, whose name you might recognize, is Herod the Great.

And some of his descendants are mentioned in the New Testament. Now, one of the things you recall from Genesis 21 is Abraham sent Hagar and Ishmael away. And so we see that pattern here. What we see here in where did Ishmael settle is this area right next to Egypt all the way heading out into the desert to the east. That's where the Ishmaelites settled. And it says that he settled in defiance of all his relatives. You want me to settle here? Oh you don't? Oh good, I'm going to settle here. You want me to be your neighbor? No? Well that's exactly what I'm going to do. So whatever you want, that's what you're not going to get.

So that was the Ishmaelite philosophy. And it continues to this day. All these relatives on that chart that you saw on page one, they're all battling against the Jews even today. And it will not stop until the Lord comes again. No matter how many peace accords we try to make, or treaties we try to set up, or no matter how much land and privilege we ask the people of Israel to give up.

And by the way, some of this land is just really choice, lush, fertile country. Those are sheep trails within the box. Oh boy. Now, we get to the real juicy part of this account. This is Jacob and Esau in the very expensive bowl of soup. Here in verses 19-34, this is where we start another section. Because now, as opposed to some of the accounts with Abraham where things move rather slowly, chapter by chapter, we see moving in this passage all the way from Rebekah being pregnant with these twins all the way to here these guys are grown up. And so that's how we'll introduce this section. Remember that we saw previously that Rebekah and Isaac were married and Rebekah had come from Isaac's and Abraham's relatives to the north and come down here to be married to Isaac.

We see that Isaac and Rebekah, after some struggle to become pregnant, finally she has twins. As a matter of fact, The struggle between them before these twins are born causes her to pray. Now, I'm sure she's not the first nor the last woman to pray while she's pregnant. But this struggle was something that really caught her attention. And she asked the Lord, what's the meaning of this? What's going on?

We'll take a look at that here in a minute. Here's Isaac's ages. We just saw how here earlier in the chapter Abraham died at 175 years. That puts Isaac at 75. We get some information we didn't have in previous chapters and that is that as Isaac marries Rebecca in verse 20 it says he is 40 years old. Previously, we just kind of had a bracket, 37 years up to 75.

Now, it's Isaac marries Rebekah. He is 40 years old at this time. And then Jacob and Esau are born to Rebekah. It's 20 years later. She has struggled to become pregnant. And we will find it interesting that each of the patriarchs with Abraham, with Isaac, with Jacob, there is a difficulty in getting pregnant with each one of their wives. And then finally, as we come to this account, it moves quickly to here they are born and here is Esau, okay, whose name means Harry. That doesn't mean his name is Harry. It means his name means Harry, okay?

And then you have Jacob, and it's interesting, he's a usurper. Essentially the description of the Hebrew term is he's a little heel grabber. As his older brother is born, Jacob's grabbing onto his brother's heel as he's coming out. Now as they grow up into adulthood, there's some instance in which Jacob, who tends to hang around the tents, has got this stew, this reddish stew that he's mixed, and Esau comes in and he is famished.

He says, man, I am starving. I've been out there chasing those antelopes and they just don't slow down. So he is starving. He comes in, man, I am really hungry. And Jacob says, you are? Have I got a deal for you? He says, I will give you a bowl of this if you will trade it for your birthright. What? He says, well, I'm hungry. Sure. Okay. And he gives in. Well, this is not a good bargain.

One of the things as we look at this passage and we start thinking back about Abraham and now about Isaac and now Isaac's sons, Abraham had been twice through the tell the truth lesson, at least that's what's recorded, probably more, instances where he learned the hard way, I better tell the truth because it eventually gets found out.

But oddly enough, He didn't pass it on to his son Isaac. We're going to see an instance where his son Isaac falls into the same trap. Very similarly, and even in the same city. And Isaac didn't pass it on to his wife and to his son Jacob, as we'll soon see. Isn't it interesting?

I mean, you'd think they'd have time sitting around the tents eating stew to talk about these things. But they didn't pass it on, even though they lived long years of life. And no cell phones were ringing. There were no TV shows. There were no DVDs to break down. With all that opportunity, they still didn't pass those lessons along, son to son, father to son. Abraham had finally learned to keep his son Isaac as God's promised heir. He did learn that. We see that. But what happened is rather than seeing it as God's designation, Isaac favored Esau, Rebecca favored Jacob.

There was not a perspective of what does God want? How does God want us to treat these two? Instead they fell into, what do I like? What do I feel like? What do I want to do? Rather than asking the question, what does God want to do with these two sons? And the two of them together, the two of them together acting as parents, looking to what God wants. No, instead, instead, They relied simply upon, how do I feel about? What does my own heart tell me to do by myself? They didn't look at godly reasons. They looked only at human reasons. Here's another question here.

Does every man have his price? Esau certainly lost out because of the deception and deviousness in his family and we're going to see more of that as time goes on. He lost out big time. He also lost out because he didn't, as we saw right here, I'll sell out my birthright for a bowl of that red stew there. He didn't place any value on what was valuable.

What's valuable? What matters? In the long run, what's going to count? You see, the values of our lifetimes and forever aren't to be traded for short-term passions, for desires and hungers and thirsts, for things that are fleeting. So one of the things that this account tells us is to ask what's valuable? What really counts? What really matters?

You see, no matter what draws us down here, here on this planet, even if it may at the moment seem fairly intense, The urging of scripture is to keep looking to the Lord. What does the Lord value? Who is he? Who are we in him? What has he made us to be? In Hebrews 12 verses, and that should be a correction, I think, in your handout, 14 through 17, the author of Hebrews writes, pursue peace with all men and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, so that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.

That there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal." Bad trade. A bad exchange. For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, even though he sought it with tears. So the choice is made as to what's valuable. What does God care about? How does God see this? Those kinds of decisions, a lot of times they'll have consequences and they can be tough to reverse or change.

The urging here comes out of verse 14 and the first part of verse 15. Pursue peace with all men. This is relationships with others. and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. The Lord has sanctified us permanently and eternally in our position in Christ, 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 2. The Lord is sanctifying us, growing us in Him, and there will come a day when we'll be completely and totally sanctified. He's saying put your focus on that growth that's happening now. Be growing in the Lord. Turn your focus upon Him. Look at what He considers valuable. Behold Him.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God. You know how you come short of the grace of God? You try to do something else. How much does the grace of God cost to take advantage of? Nothing. That's why it's grace. It's when we try to do something apart from Him or instead of Him. That's when we come short of the grace of God. Fall completely on God's grace. That's what His appeal was all about. Let's pray.

Lord, as we look at this chapter, certainly lots happening here. Lots taking place. And yet, as we look at these words, we see in the end, There are great sweeping truths for us to take hold of, to live life such that like Abraham, we can say, ah, that was a good life by God's grace. That was God's doing, a satisfying time because the Lord has accomplished his own will and his purpose in us. And Lord, with Jacob and Esau, Lord, to see the lesson there, that rather than selling out, that we recognize what you consider valuable. We recognize what is eternal and what's forever. And we just pray that our hearts and minds would be drawn to understand and to have a desire for those things that which you value. In Jesus' name, amen.