94-36 TS Emergency Rescue - Obadiah

Give him sovereign power, glory and authority. Every nation, tribe and tongue, worship him on bended knee. And he shall reign forever, his throne and crown shall ever endure.

And he shall reign forever, and we shall reign with him. On the throne forever, see the Lamb who once was dead. Wounds of sacrificial love forever shall remain.

And he shall reign forever, his throne and crown shall ever endure. And he shall reign forever, and we shall reign with him. To the grace I am, to you I sing, for you're the one who reigns within my heart.

Spend no foreign gold, or any other treasure. For you are my heart's desire, spirit without measure. To your name I will bring my sacrifice.

Perhaps we could all sing this. It's the song, I lift my hands to the coming King. We'll have it up on the overhead screens.

If you're in the aisles, either side, it's number 188 in the blue supplements. I will serve no foreign god, this is the response, or any other treasure. You are my heart's desire, spirit without measure.

And to your name I will bring my sacrifice. Let's stand and we'll sing it together. I lift my hands to the coming King.

To the grace I am, to you I sing. For you're the one who reigns within my heart. To the coming King.

To the grace I am. To you I sing. For you're the one who reigns within my heart.

And I will serve no foreign god, or any other treasure. To you are my heart's desire, spirit without measure. And to your name I will bring my sacrifice.

And I will serve no foreign god, or any other treasure. For you are my heart's desire, spirit without measure. And to your name I will bring my sacrifice.

It's a good song to sing at the start of our service because that will be at least part of our theme. That Jesus is the King who is coming and we had better be ready for him. We're going to turn now to the Bible which we believe is God's word to us and so we treat it very seriously.

And to the book of Obadiah. Good, well the pages have stopped rustling now. We're going to read from verse 8. Now although this little book is a bit obscure and it's tucked away in the heart of the Old Testament.

In another way it seems to be terrifyingly up to date. And as we read it we can see something of the conflicts going on in our world. Even in our own day and age.

Between the Serbians and the Croatians and the Bosnians. Or between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda. Obadiah verse 8. Destroy the wise men of Edom.

Men of understanding in the mountains of Esau. Your warriors, O Teman, will be terrified and everyone in Esau's mountains will be cut down in the slaughter. Because of your violence against your brother Jacob.

You will be covered with shame. You will be destroyed forever. On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem.

You were like one of them. You should not look down on your brother in the day of his misfortune. Nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction.

Nor boast so much in the day of their trouble. You should not march through the gates of my people in the day of their disaster. Nor look down on them in their calamity in the day of their disaster.

Nor seize their wealth in the day of their disaster. You should not wait at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives. Nor hand over their survivors in the day of their trouble.

The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

Just as you drank on my holy hill so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and drink and be as if they had never been. But on Mount Zion will be deliverance.

It will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess its inheritance. The house of Jacob will be afire and the house of Joseph aflame.

The house of Esau will be stubble and they will set it on fire and consume it. There will be no survivors from the house of Esau. The Lord has spoken.

People from the Negev will occupy the mountains of Esau. And people from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria.

And Benjamin will possess Gilead. This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan will possess the land as far as Zarephath. The exiles from Jerusalem who are in Seraphat will possess the towns of the Negev.

Deliverers will go up from Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the Lord's. Amen.

Let's pray, shall we? Father, as we read that passage from your word, we realize that much of the historical detail is very strange to us. But we can catch something of the spirit of it. We realize that for many people in the world today, they are living through what could be called the day of their disaster.

The day of their disaster. The day of their trouble. Lord, we do pray that you will have mercy.

We do want to pray for those refugees in Central Africa. We pray for them in their camps. Now we pray that food and water, clean water, should be supplied to them.

We pray for those with young children. Think of the trauma and the awfulness of having to pack up and just take what you can with you. And go to a completely foreign place and have nothing in the world, really.

Lord, we do pray for them. Father, we pray that you will give those in authority in this world wisdom to know what to do. And we do pray for those two warring tribes, brothers in a way, that somehow the miracle of your reconciliation will be brought into that part of the world.

Father, we've prayed so much for Bosnia that we hardly know how to go on to pray. But again, Lord, we just bring and lift those peoples to you. Think of those rivalries and enmity which goes back so far.

That bitterness, those vendettas. Oh Lord, it is only the power of your love which can break through and stop all of this. We pray even yet that Christian people and the Christian gospel and the good news of Jesus will get through to that land.

Father, we realize part of the problem is that they have been starved of the gospel for so, so long. Lord, again we pray for South Africa. We thank you for those men there who acknowledge you in their own way.

We thank you that Chief Budulazi and Nelson Mandela and de Klerk all have a regard for God. We do pray that this will keep that country. We pray that they will be intent on pleasing you and not just on doing what they or their followers demand in men's thirst for vengeance and desire to hang on to what he has.

Father, we do pray for that land. Bless Africa and particularly that nation of this time. And may it yet be seen to be a miracle of your love and grace.

Father, for us as we look at your word now, you know how difficult it is for us to take your word seriously. But we know that when you speak, you are serious and help us to react in an appropriate way. For Jesus' sake.

Amen. I hope you haven't shut your Bibles because you'll need to find Obadiah again. There's a character who shows up throughout the Bible and his name is Esau.

You'll know that he was a twin, but he and his brother were as different as chalk from cheese. I'm afraid the best known sermon on Esau was Alan Bennett's spoof on the text, My brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man. That's the one where he goes on to say that life is like a tin of sardines.

Everybody's looking for the key. Well, if you haven't heard that sermon, don't worry. But there were these brothers, Jacob and Esau.

Jacob, as Tony called him just about a year ago now, I suppose, was the Arthur Daly of the Old Testament. And he was scheming with his mum when he uttered those words, My brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man. And they were working out a way of impersonating Esau in order that he should go in to his virtually blind old dad Isaac to grab the family silver, as it were, to snatch the birthright, as it was in those days, from the rightful older son.

Esau was out hunting at the time. That was true to form. He was into sport in a big way and he was a real outdoor type.

Big, tough, hunky sort of guy, I think we imagine him as. I know Zaza Gavur said that macho men don't add up to macho. And I think that this was true of Esau, sadly true.

Because although Esau had a lot going for him as this big, tough guy, he lived just for the moment. He was the real man of the world. This was the only thing that really bothered him.

His philosophy of life was the philosophy of Freddie Mercury. I want it all. I want it now.

And he couldn't wait for anything. And sadly, all of his life was lived in the physical. And he didn't have a spiritual thought in his head, so it would seem.

Never a thought of God, never a thought of what comes after this life. He wasn't a bad bloke, Esau. He had a few grudges against his brother.

In fact, he could have killed him. But then if Jacob had been your brother, you might have felt exactly the same way. But the real problem with Esau was his appetites.

He just lived to satisfy his appetites. And he lived life as though God never existed. And really, that's the root of all sin.

That's why it's the worst sin in the book, to live life as though you answer to nobody. You're just your own person. You can live for the here and now, and that's that.

That was Esau. And Esau, always in the Bible, stands for the man of the world who just lives for himself and his appetites. He became the founding father of a nation state, the nation of Edom.

Esau's descendants settled down in the uplands around the Dead Sea. It was a desert region, though not quite as dry as it is these days. And, you know, the whole of that society took after Esau.

The Edomites are the only people in the world whom archaeologists have never discovered a trace of religion in any of their buildings or any of their towns. They were a totally godless society. And Edom stands, just as Esau did for the godless man in the Bible, for the godless society.

Now here we have this little book in the Old Testament tucked away. It's about Edom. It's about a godless group of people.

And it's about what godless people can expect as they are on a collision course with the living God. And if you don't really have a thought in your head, or at least if you haven't until recently, about God, about what will happen to you, what's going to happen to you when the balloon goes up and you have to face the consequences of the way in which you've lived your life or are living your life? What's going to happen when you stand before the God who made you? See, Obadiah says here, The day of the Lord is near for everybody, verse 15. It's not far away, that day when God will come back in the person of Jesus Christ to this world and each one of us will stand before him to answer for what we've done with our lives.

How the verdict will go will be completely fair. See, for people who didn't want to know God now, he will say, Well, I don't know you. You never had anything to do with me.

I'm afraid I don't know you. Oh yes, I know about you. That's different.

Because God knows all about everybody, but I don't know you. Get out of my sight. Now, God never wanted it that way.

But, you see, the thing with God is he can't just ignore all of the evil in this world. And the evil that there is in this world comes basically because men have, as it were, put two fingers up to God and told him to push off. And they don't want him interfering in their lives.

And as a result, we've made a complete botch of this world. God's world. And God can't overlook that.

And he can't overlook it in your life or mine either. If he could, he wouldn't be holy. And we wouldn't be safe.

Now, you might say that's a bit gloomy. Maybe it is, this sort of impending doom in this message. But the Bible never gives us just a message of doom.

You see, the whole idea of God giving us these warnings, serious warnings as they are, is that you and I might escape. Is that you and I might get out of this judgment. And amazingly, God has given us a fantastic way in which we might escape facing him in our sin and standing before his burning holiness.

And we'll come on to that. But what we have to say this evening is quite shocking. It's shocking for the man in the street.

It's shocking for the man in the 20th century who believes that God couldn't hurt a fly. The Bible never says that. The Bible says that if you have nothing to do with God now, he will have nothing to do with you then.

And that means hell. Now, why do we have to talk about judgment? We don't talk about it very often. I don't like talking about judgment.

I don't preach on it if I can possibly help it. I really felt that I had to speak on judgment this evening. Why do I speak to young people about judgment? After all, you've got a long time to go, haven't you? I mean, you probably think that I've got one foot in the grave and another on a banana skin.

But that's not true with a lot of you. Well, now's really the time to get your life sorted out. Because you see, you can look at death a little less passionately now you're young, can't you? It's not quite such a sensitive thing for you because you don't really expect to die in the near future, though only God knows when that day will be.

So you can take a look at life and you can get things sorted out now and there's not that immediate pressure on you. You know when you're getting on in life because people start saying to you, they say, you don't look any older. Someone said that to me a couple of weeks ago and I knew I must be getting older.

But there's this stupid game, isn't there? It's our let's pretend game that none of us are getting any older. But we are. I'm halfway through my natural life.

The first half didn't take very long and I'm sure the second half will take even less time. And it won't be long before we're all standing before God. I was talking to a man in his nineties this week.

He's not a Christian. He's quite a deep thinker. He's talking about the home where he lives, an old people's home, warden-assisted place.

And he said, it's hopeless trying to talk to anybody here because all they're interested in, these pensioners, don't forget, are their cards, their bingo and their television. And these are people who are on the brink of eternity, on the way out of this world. That's all they're interested in.

He was disgusted. But they refused to face up to their mortality. And I tell you, young people, if you're only interested in trivia now, at 16, 20, whatever, you will only be interested in trivia when you get to 66.

Things won't automatically change when you reach 40 or something like that. So that's why it's so important, particularly when you're young, to face up to God and to face up to what he says about sin and judgment. Now, Christianity, of course, is all about salvation.

It's all about deliverance. It's a rescue religion. And in our verses today, we have talk of deliverance.

Verse 17 on Mount Zion will be deliverance. Verse 21, deliverance will go up from Mount Zion. Well, we'll come back to Mount Zion.

But if there is deliverance, if there is rescue, the obvious question is, what are we to be rescued from? That's an obvious first question if we're talking about rescue, isn't it? The New Testament gives us an answer to this question. 1 Thessalonians 1, verse 10, Paul says, Jesus, who has rescued us from the coming wrath, the coming anger, the coming anger of God, which is about to be released upon all wickedness and unrighteousness, as the Bible says. That is what we are to be rescued from.

There is to be a judgment. I was very glad to hear the right reverend Robin Eames this week. I don't know whether he's Protestant or Catholic.

I couldn't really work this out. I should know, really. But he was talking about some sectarian murder that's just taken place in Northern Ireland.

And he was saying there are two reasons why this has got to stop. And he said, first, because people will have to answer for this one day at the judgment seat of God. I'm so glad he said that.

And I'm so glad he said, first, because that is the first and foremost reason why people must stop this violence. And secondly, he said, because it will destroy the whole community if we carry on in this way. There is to be a final judgment.

And Obadiah here gives us three pictures of it. They are three awful scenes. You might say, well, this is just the doom and gloom of the Old Testament.

But it's not so, because each one of these pictures is taken up and developed in the New Testament. Let's look at them. The first picture of God's judgment is in verses, well, it is in verse five, yeah, in verses five and six.

And that is the picture of a ram raid. Now, we know, because we know quite a lot about criminology these days, that people who break into our homes are generally interested in specific things. Jewelry, cash, videos, things that are easily lifted and easily disposed of.

People are stealing to order. That must be the only explanation of my mom having her Micra stolen last month when all the other cars in the road were completely untouched. They are looking for something and they will see it and identify it and make off with it.

And that was true in the Old Testament times as well. Verse five, Oh, what a disaster awaits you if thieves came to you and robbers in the night. Would they not steal only as much as they wanted? Occasionally, of course, we hear those horror stories about removal vans turning up outside somebody's home and the neighbors all think, oh, they must have been moving in a hurry and when people get home from work, there's not a thing left in their house.

But that's not usually the way. But it will be like that at the last judgment, says Obadiah. They will clear you out, Edom, of absolutely everything.

And Jesus uses exactly the same picture, doesn't he? He said, I'm going to come like a thief in the night. And the man of the world will end up with nothing. If all you have is in this world, you will end up with absolutely nothing.

You see, judgment and your own death, actually, is the ultimate recession. It's the ultimate property market collapse, isn't it? Because the moment you die, your house is worth absolutely nothing. And nothing else that you have in this world is worth a bean to you If all you have is in this world, then Jesus will clear you out, my friend.

Though he wants to give you something wonderful that far exceeds anything that you might possess here and now. The second picture Obadiah gives us is that of a drunken stupor. Verse 16.

Just as you drank on my holy hills, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and drink and be as if they had never been. This is a binge which begins with a celebration, a good night out, and ends up in a nightmare.

In my college days, I had a room which I chose which was just opposite the bar. I didn't choose it for that reason, but that was where it was. And I knew that on a good day for the rugby club, if they'd had a good win, that they would be down in the bar and they would be in high spirits and they'd have a few beers which would turn into a few barrels and then there would be rowdy songs and broken glasses and then there would be fists through windows and broken glass and then there would be clenched fists and there would be broken arms and jaws and people would be violently ill and throwing up everywhere and legless and senseless and smashed out of their brains by about 1.30 in the morning.

Well, that's the picture of judgment. Throughout the Bible, you look at Revelation, chapter 14 especially, that is like what it will be when people in the world get absolutely smashed, stoned out of their brains. The third picture that Al-Badr gives us is that of a forest fire.

Verse 18, The house of Jacob will be afire and the house of Joseph aflame, the house of Esau will be stubble and they will be set on fire and they will set it on fire and consume it. Fire sweeping across these tinder-dry fields and then there are these words, there will be no survivors. I think those two words, no survivors, they're the most chilling two words you can hear on a news bulletin, aren't they? Some accident or disaster has happened and the comment is, there were no survivors.

And God's word says, there will be no survivors. Peter says in the New Testament that this world will be destroyed by fire Fire, because that's the only way to get rid of infection, isn't it? And make sure that it doesn't ever come back again. Because God is sick and tired of all the suffering and the evil in this world of his and he's determined to get rid of every last trace of evil and that means fire.

The Reader's Digest wrote to me again this week with their regular prophecy that I was about to become a very wealthy man. I've realised that this is a false prophecy and they're much more interested in taking my money than giving me theirs. But the thing they wanted to take my money for this time was a book called Great Disasters.

Now this must be a ripping good read for anarchists, psychopaths, arsonists, anybody who has destructive tendencies. It's a catalogue of earthquakes and fires and tidal waves and floods and this kind of thing. I don't know whether you've been to a scene of a disaster either before or since.

It's very chilling again, isn't it? Do you remember Summerlands? I don't know whether any of you have been there. I was in Summerlands as a teenager and there was a massive great new leisure complex in the Isle of Man and the next year it was completely burned down and it had all new sort of flash plastic fittings which were really in in those days. Well they might just as well have sprayed the place with kerosene really the way it went up and there were a number who died of all ages.

Well I'd been there and could have been me and probably you've been to King's Cross or these other places. And the Word of God says that there are only little pictures of the awful disaster that is coming to sweep over this world and there will be no place to hide and there will be no place to run on that day. If you're going to hide, if you're going to run you've got to do it now and we'll tell you where.

Now the question is do you believe this? God has spoken. The Lord has spoken. I haven't time to go into the details how it happened to Edom but it did.

Herod was the last about the last of the Edomites or the family of the Herods. They were cruel power crazed men. They would kill their own sons.

They would massacre babies. But you can look at the demise of the last Herod in Acts chapter 12 or you can read about it in the Jewish historian Josephus. One day Herod they were trying to bust him up in Phoenicia because they wanted to get on the right side of him and so they said, this is the voice of a God not of a man.

Herod thought it was wonderful but three days later he was dead. He died actually one of the most agonizingly painful deaths that anybody can die. His flesh just rotted on his bones.

It's a medical condition, a rare one. It's known to be an awful condition. And that was about the last of the Edomites.

You won't find any Edomites around today. God had spoken. God would do it.

And God has spoken about this world and God will do this. This is the message of his word and I have to bring it to you. Now after that it's with a huge sigh of relief that we can turn from these appalling scenes to an amazing rescue.

As we've said Christianity is about rescue. It's all about salvation. But we have to see what we're to be saved from otherwise we won't really understand why we need to be saved.

So that's why we've had to work through this ground and we need to see that this is serious. Rejecting Jesus Christ is not like rejecting an invitation to dinner. Your whole destiny depends upon your response to him.

I had a young guy up here, one of the first who gave a testimony when I arrived in the church and he said that he had found an escape route to God. And that's what it's about. It's finding this escape route to God.

Because there has been a dramatic rescue. It was to be in the future when Obadiah was writing. It's now for us in the past.

But there it is in verse 17. On Mount Zion will be deliverance. Deliverance from all of these disasters.

Deliverance from God's wrath against sin. Deliverance from judgment. And it will take place on Mount Zion.

Well you say, wherever in the world is Mount Zion? We know the word Zionist, don't we? It's come to have a bit of a pejorative meaning, but it refers to a Jewish nationalist. And Mount Zion, well Zion is the Hebrew name for Jerusalem. Which was built, of course, on a hill.

And Mount Zion is God's holy hill. That's how it's described in verse 16 by the Lord himself speaking through Obadiah. Now why do Christians know Jerusalem as the holy city? Well it's for this reason.

It's because in Jerusalem the rescue by God of mankind took place. Jesus knew that he had to get into Jerusalem. That's patently clear as you read the gospels.

He knew that nowhere else would do. He knew that he had to get there to accomplish his God-given rescue mission. What happened when he got there? Well he was smashed up, wasn't he? On a cross.

That's what happened when he got there. Just outside the old city, just up above the bus station as it is today in Jerusalem because God's rescue is very down to earth. That's where Jesus was nailed up on the cross.

And that was God's rescue. Because when Jesus was there he was taking on himself, on his shoulders all of the sin and the muck and the filth of the world and all of the sin and the muck and the filth in your life if you trust him. I wouldn't have picked a rescue that way.

But God's judgment as it were fell and it fell upon him, his own son. Nobody would have picked a rescue that way. Certainly not on their child.

But God did and Jesus died. And of course it was in Jerusalem too outside the old city in a private grave in a private garden that Jesus came back from the dead and he completed this rescue operation of God. This most daring, dramatic, courageous rescue that the world has ever seen.

And that's why on Mount Zion there would be deliverance as Obadiah prophesied. Now have you been there? We can't all go to Jerusalem and even if we could go in space we couldn't go back in time. But we can in the words of the Negro spiritual be there when they crucified my Lord.

I wonder have you ever been to the cross in your life? Have you ever been there? Have you been to that place where you can't think about anything else other than Jesus and what he did when he died there on the cross? And you know he died for you and for your sin. You know that when he was hanging there he was removing your sin and absorbing it into his own body and dissipating it by the power of his holy life. And you know that you've been rescued.

You know that you've been saved. We need to go there. Each one of us.

And if you have then aren't you grateful? Are you grateful? Well surely Jesus saved your life didn't he? And much much more than that. If you're grateful then having been rescued yourself you need to rescue other peoples. Once rescued you become a rescuer.

That's the point of verse 21. Deliver us we'll go from Mount Zion. You see we can stay as Tony was saying this morning in the rarefied atmosphere of the Christian church can't we? We can stay on Mount Zion quite easily.

It's very comfortable doing our worship and our Bible, hearing our Bible teaching and socializing with Christians. We call it fellowship but it's not really most of it. Most of it's just socializing.

But really we're supposed to be back down in the world reaching people for Jesus once we've been rescued ourselves. See we're told to fish for men aren't we? That's what Jesus told his disciples to do. But if we're staying on Mount Zion that can be so far above the ocean below us that no fishing line could possibly reach down to the water below.

And all we're going to catch are a few flying fish which happen somehow miraculously to jump up and get in alongside with us. And too many of us are not prepared to go back into the fire. And too many of us have the attitude well I'm alright Jack.

I was quite interested to look up the original quote of that actually. It was said by a man called Sir David Bone. In the original he said it's damn you Jack I'm alright.

And for many of us I'm afraid we have to put up our hands and say guilty. We are guilty of that. We make no real effort to reach anybody else to rescue them at all.

That's why we're having this mission. You see evangelism is not an optional leisure time activity for those who have skins like rhinoceros hides and they're totally insensitive to anybody else. Evangelism is not just an advertising campaign or a recruitment drive.

Evangelism is a deadly serious rescue mission. And it's all hands on. We need everybody.

We can get there as people you can reach that nobody else can nearly as easily. See once we go to the cross it's like getting breathing apparatus and fireproof gear and then we're back down into the world to rescue others and as Jude puts it to snatch others from the fire and save them. We're like those liberators who landed on the beaches of Normandy and at great cost some to their lives went out and liberated France from the Nazis.

We're like or we should be like one of those two Brits who was shot down in the helicopter friendly fire incident in the gulf last month. He was subsequently decorated for acts of great courage in Sarajevo where he was involved in snatching people out from a burning hospital. That's your job.

That's my job. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ don't say to me oh yeah but I might get my fingers burnt. Well of course you get your fingers burnt.

More likely your ears actually. But that's the business. That's the job.

One of the things that I think we really need to learn as a Christian church in this country these days is that we don't have any right to leisure time. Everybody else thinks they've got right to leisure but we haven't. You can use your leisure to get to know other people.

You can relax, have a good time as well, enjoy yourself in the activities which you're interested in. But that time is really for getting to know other people who share similar interests with you. Getting alongside them so that you can become a credible Christian with a credible message.

That's what's needed. Just finally we come to the last great climax of this little book. And the kingdom will be the Lord.

That's what it's all heading to. That's who it's all heading to. Revelation says the same thing doesn't it? The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of the Lord and of his Christ.

And he shall reign forever and ever. That's the same theme. This is God's world.

Jesus is the king of God's world. And in a renewed, recreated way he will reign over all. Now some of you know that full well.

Some of you know that Jesus is king in God's universe. You have no doubt that that is true. You have no doubt that Jesus died.

You have no doubt that Jesus rose again. You have no doubt that he is real. That God is there.

But you're still living as though he wasn't. That's absolute madness isn't it? Absolute madness no matter how old you are. And tonight it's time to move.

It's time to move because God has loved you so wonderfully so totally so absolutely that he sent his son for you. That you might never have to go through his judgement yourself but might escape and might know all the good things that God has for you in this life and the next. He means living for him.

That means having Jesus as your king now of course. There's no other way. And if Jesus is your king then it's also time for you to move and it's time for me to move.

It's time to get back into that world and it's time to make a priority of rescuing other people. ... ... ... Now let's Let's look at that third verse. Please be seated as we do so.

Lord of my life today, teach me to live and pray as one who knows the joy of sins forgiven. So may I ever be now and eternally one with my fellow citizens in heaven. Let's sing that very thoughtfully as we bring this bread and wine to you.

Verse three we all sing. Lord of my life today, teach me to live and pray as one who knows the joy of sins forgiven. So may I ever be now and eternally one with my fellow citizens in heaven.