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Derek is the Bible Teacher for Good News Broadcasting. When non entering for wireless, he travels prophesying at a batch of different Churches. Go and listen to him if you can.
You join us at the start of a trade name new series. It ‘s based on a cardinal subdivision of Luke ‘s Gospel. We are believing about how to ‘Storm-Proof Lives ‘ . . . . that ‘s the rubric for the series.
Today ‘s message is based on Luke 6 poetries 46 to 49.
Derek gives it the rubric ‘Building A Life That Will Last. ‘
I ‘m back from clip to clip. But listen now for what God will state to you.
Here ‘s Derek.
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A figure of old ages ago, a developer in Canada built a lodging estate in the Toronto suburbs. The houses were expensive. The tonss sold rapidly and many beautiful houses were finished by summer. When winter arrived, there was a great trade of rain, ice and snow. One of the places collapsed into a swallow hole… so another and another. Under force per unit area, the developer confessed the subdivision had been built over a landfill. And alternatively of taking the clip to convey in good fill soil and fix good foundations, he merely built on top of the trash. Harmonizing to Jesus, there are a batch of people who have foundation jobs.
Today we look at the decision of Jesus ‘ “ Sermon on the Plain, ” a sawed-off version of the Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew.
Most sermonizers understand a good discourse must hold a truly good decision ; sometimes it is the lone portion the audience will retrieve. We ‘ve all heard sermonizers who did n’t cognize how to complete. Like the battery powered bunny, they go “ on and on and on and on. ”
Person said to me after hearing a sermonizer who has a difficult clip coming to a decision, “ You know, that preacher sure missed a batch of good fillet points! ”
One lady told her curate his discourse reminded her of the peace of God and the clemency of God. He was about to state, “ Thankss. ” But so she continued, “ Like the peace of God it passed all apprehension, and like the clemency of God, it was everlasting. ”
In contrast to many of our long discourses, the full Sermon on the Plain covers merely 29 poetries and can be read aloud in less than five proceedingss. Jesus used the exact decision for the Sermon on the Plain He used for the Sermon on the Mount. It ‘s a short parable about two work forces constructing houses. He saved the best for last, so Lashkar-e-Taiba ‘s analyze His decision beginning in Luke 6:46.
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“ Why do you name me “ Lord, Lord, ” and make non make what I say? I will demo you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into pattern. He is like a adult male constructing a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on stone. When a inundation came, the torrent struck that house but could non agitate it, because it was good build. But the 1 who hears my words and does non set them into pattern is like a adult male who built a house on the land without a foundation.
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The minute the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its devastation was complete. ”
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Jesus non merely gave superb replies, He asked superb inquiries. The nazarene begins His decision by inquiring a inquiry He is still inquiring each of us who claim to be a Christian. Try to conceive of Jesus looking into your eyes today inquiring this inquiry, “ Why do you name me ‘lord, Godhead, ‘ and do n’t make what I say? ” That ‘s a complete contradiction. The rubric Lord means “ maestro, swayer, or foreman. ” If you claim person is your foreman but you do n’t follow their instructions so your walk does n’t fit your talk. Let ‘s expression at the different degrees of this parable.
On the surface, Jesus is merely giving wise building advice. As a good carpenter, ( really better translated “ builder ” ) , Jesus knew how to construct houses, which were all made of rock. He knew a good, stable house had to be built upon stone. There is no deficit of stones in Israel. In fact, about the full state is a thin bed of surface soil covering stone. In depicting this scene Jesus talked about the foolishness of constructing a house on sand. This really happened at times. Peoples tried to acquire as near to H2O as possible, so they sometimes built rock houses near a river on the land once a river bottom. Partss of these river bottoms consisted of sand washed down old ages before. If
person built upon this sand, the place was all right until an remarkably big sum of stormy conditions and rain occurred. As the kids ‘s vocal says, “ That ‘s when the rains came down and the inundations came up. ” As the H2O in the river rose, it reached the flaxen dirt beneath the house and the sand shifted beneath the rock walls, and “ splat! ” The H2O did n’t hold to acquire really high-it would n’t necessitate to acquire deeper than the sand itself. When the H2O reached the sand, the house would n’t merely switch, thin, or joust, it wholly collapsed. That ‘s why Jesus said in poetry 49, “ The minute the torrent struck the house, it collapsed and its devastation was complete. ”
Smart builders could still construct on the old riverbed really near to the house on the sand. But the wise builder merely continued to examine the sand until he found solid stone. Then, he would delve down into the sand and construct his walls in the stones. Same location, same storm, same high H2O. The difference? There was no sand to travel. The H2O could even lift up to the Windowss, but the house would stand house. Before the storm, both houses looked indistinguishable ; the difference was n’t seen until the storm came. Jesus is corroborating what wise builders know today: You must hold a good foundation or your edifice will be in problem.
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Many of you have seen the astonishing Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. Work on this beautiful bell tower began in 1173 and continued for 200 old ages. One ground it took so long was it was non built on a solid foundation so it began to tilt. The builders tried unsuccessfully to rectify the job. They continued to construct it to its full tallness of 185 pess, with the top 18 pess off-centre. The tower has remained standing for over 800 old ages, but unless modern attempts are successful to forestall farther impairment of the foundation, it will finally fall.
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Yes. . . do n’t of all time bury the importance of a good foundation.
Make you cognize that there ‘s rather a celebrated narrative for kids that ‘s similar. In this narrative, all the characters are builders. They each construct a house. There is a contrast between the wise and foolish edifice. Every house faces a trial. If the house were built sagely, it stands. If it were built unwisely, it falls. Anybody recognize what this other narrative is?
The Three Little Pigs.
And the small hog says, ‘Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin. ‘
Two of the hogs build their houses out of debris, possibly because it ‘s easier or cheaper, and they ne’er stop to inquire the inquiries, Will it stand up to the wolf trial. And one small hoggish physiques sagely and it lasts.
There ‘s something about house edifice as a metaphore for our lives that runs sort of deep.
Since this is a parable, we know Jesus was n’t chiefly speaking about houses. He was speaking about people, people merely like us. Jesus is depicting two types of people.
Which group are you in?
A wise adult male comes to Jesus, hears His words, and obeys them.
Notice the three phases of associating to Jesus in poetry 47.
Measure one: This individual is person who has come to Jesus. Jesus said, “ Come unto me all you who labour and are heavy laden. ” Have you done that? Most of you hearing this have done that-good for you!
Measure two: This individual has heard the words of Jesus. Jesus besides said, “ He who has ears to hear, allow him hear. ” That means, “ Are you truly listening? ” Again, about everyone hearing me had heard the words of Jesus. You have read them, or heard them learn to you.
Notice measure three: This individual “ set them into pattern. ” That ‘s a verb in the Grecian linguistic communication that does n’t intend once-and-for-all action. It means continual action. The 3rd measure is to continually be willing to obey and set into pattern the words of Jesus.
Next, A sap comes to Jesus, hears His words, and does n’t obey them.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warns it is a unsafe thing to name a adult male a “ sap. ” But so a few proceedingss subsequently, He calls the adult male foolish who builds on the sand. Who is He speaking about? For many old ages, I read this parable and thought Jesus was speaking about the difference between a Christian and an disbeliever. I thought the Christian was the 1 whose life was built on the Rock and the collapsed house pictured a heathen miscreant who had no involvement in God. But one twenty-four hours I read it once more. As I read it, the foolish adult male had taken two of the three stairss the wise adult male took. Jesus says in poetry 49 this adult male “ hears my words. ” I believe this pictures a individual who approaches Jesus in religion and he is cognizant of the Words of Jesus. It sounds to me like a individual who attends church, hears the Bible taught, and even reads the Bible himself. So, do you see the lone difference between the two? The foolish adult male chooses non to obey Jesus. I do n’t believe Jesus is speaking about a individual who has no cognition of God and is clueless about what the Bible says. This adult male has heard the Word of God! It could be a imitative Christian or it could be like 1000s of people who are in church every Sunday. You know what much of the Bible says but you treat it like a good novel, a tear-jerking film, or a fantastic vocal you hear. It ‘s nice, and you enjoy it, but you are n’t traveling to do it the full focal point of your life!
So, you ask, “ What ‘s the large trade? ” Here ‘s the large trade: When storms come into your life-and they will-your life will fall apart.
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Let ‘s analyze more closely the difference between these two sorts of people.
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Yes. . . There are six of import points I want you to see as we listen to the Words of Jesus.
First: Storms will come into your life
For both the wise and the foolish builders, the storm came and the Waterss rose. Cipher is immune to the storms of life. You ‘d better be prepared because you will confront storms. Jesus said, “ In this universe you will confront problem, but take bosom! I have overcome the universe. ” Jesus faced storms, excessively and He overcame them. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He was under such force per unit area and stress beads of blood appeared like perspiration beads on His forehead-everyone has to confront the storms.
You will meet storms from the outside and like the conditions, you have no control over them. It may be a household crisis, a fiscal crisis or a relationship job. Or your storm may be emphasis on the interior. That ‘s when you struggle with disheartenment and you want to discontinue. Or it may be the depression you conflict when life does n’t go on the manner you planned. It ‘s the force per unit area constructing up on the interior from all the debris life throws your manner. Do n’t believe you can populate a storm-free life.
Bad things do go on to good people ( and good things happen to bad people ) .
Jesus said, “ God makes it to rain on the merely and the unjust. ” God is non singling out people because they deserve storms ; all of us face them at many times in life. Just anticipate them.
I heard a narrative about a curate who was out of town for a hebdomad. During his absence, a twister swept through his small metropolis. A adult male from his church met him at the metropolis bounds. The adult male said, “ Pastor, please pray for me, that twister destroyed my house. All I have left are the apparels on my dorsum. ” The curate decided to utilize the calamity to learn the adult male a lesson. The curate said, “ Well, because of the wickedness and noncompliance in your life, I ‘m non surprised your house was destroyed. I believe God was penalizing you. I hope you take this as a warning from God. ” The adult male said, “ Surely, curate. And by the manner, your house was demolished besides. ”
Ouch.
Floods normally follow the storms. Storms happen when there are clouds, boom and lightning but inundations from the storms sometimes go on in the sunlight. Sometimes, we survive the storm. It ‘s the inundation, the wake, which sinks us. Most of us have an “ exigency manner ” so when an emotional storm strikes all of a sudden ; we react with strength in the face of the immediate menace. But when the epinephrine wears off, it ‘s the slow lifting tide of desperation that frequently produces our emotional prostration. Remember storms come to everyone of us, and unsafe inundations normally follow them.
For every one of you listening to me, I can guarantee you are either you are in the thick of a storm right now, or merely staying in the composure before the following storm.
What are you making now?
The 2nd thing to observe is that you are constructing a shelter ( or a life ) against the storms.
Today, meteorologists have technological tools to warn us when a terrible storm is nearing. They issue tickers and even warn us to take shelter. Unfortunately, it ‘s harder to foretell the oncoming of the storms of life. Most frequently, they strike all of a sudden with small or no warning. The clip to fix for a storm is before it hits, non when you are in it. Whether or non you admit it, you are constructing a shelter against the storm. Your belief system or your personal philosophy-the regulations you live by-become the shelter you occupy when the storms come.
Once there was a affluent man of affairs who developed and built houses. His right manus adult male was his building chief. For over 30 old ages they operated a profitable concern of edifice houses. One twenty-four hours the proprietor said to his chief. I ‘m traveling to retire but I want to construct one more house. I want it to be the most expensive, epicurean house we ‘ve of all time built. I ‘m traveling to Europe for a twelvemonth, when I get back I want to tour the house before we sell it. Use the finest stuffs, put in the finest equipment, and Lashkar-e-Taiba ‘s even supply it with the nicest furniture and accoutrements. This is our last house before we dissolve the concern, so trim no disbursal. ” After the proprietor left, the chief thought, “ This is my last house for him, so here ‘s my opportunity to do a luck. ” He built a monolithic house but used inexpensive stuffs, inferior equipment and cheap trappingss. He pocketed the difference in the monetary value.
When the proprietor returned a twelvemonth subsequently, he and the foreman surveyed house. On the outside it was beautiful, but the foreman knew below the surface it was inferior. The proprietor asked the chief, “ Do you like the house? ” The chief said, “ Yes, sir it is a all right house. ” Then the proprietor handed the keys to the chief and said, “ Surprise. I want to give you this house for you and your household to populate in. ”
Each of us is constructing a personal house we will busy when we need shelter from life ‘s storms. It ‘s your house-so you ‘d better be careful how you build it. That ‘s why Jesus warned us the location in which we build our shelter in is highly of import.
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This brings us to the 3rd point.
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And that ‘s, what is a unsafe physique?
Jesus was seeking to warn us that: It ‘s unsafe to construct upon the switching littorals of popular civilization.
The films, telecasting shows and music of our coevals have been the beginning of a belief system for many people. We tend to idolize the famous persons and bent on their
words as they are quoted in magazines and newspapers. Everybody wants to be cool and “ accepted ” and the easiest manner to make this is to be like everyone else. We ca n’t get away it. Every book of all time written, every film and telecasting show of all time produced and every vocal of all time sung are pass oning a type of truth. It may be harmless truth or it may be harmful. Sadly, 1000000s of people have built their lives on the switching littorals of our pop civilization.
What used to be considered behaviour that would do a individual ashamed is now behaviour that will about vouch a book, film, or entering contract! There are n’t many icons in our pop civilization who are seting the words of Jesus into pattern.
It ‘s unsafe to construct upon the shallow sand of personal sentiment.
Some people take the antonym, independent attack. They claim they are non influenced by anybody. They claim everyone should merely “ believe whatever they like. ” The danger of that is you are promoting your head to the position of God. I ‘m non about smart plenty to bow down before the communion table of my intelligence! That ‘s the basic dogma of New Age doctrine. God is merely everyone ‘s “ life force ” hence, each of us is our ain “ God ” – we do n’t necessitate anybody else ‘s belief system. That sounds nice, but what happens when the storm comes?
It ‘s unsafe to construct upon the quicksand of easy believism
That ‘s one of the dangers of “ spiritual people ” who have merely embraced a part of the truth about Jesus. They want to acquire their ticket to heaven punched, but they truly do n’t desire their belief to irrupt on their existent life. They pattern a sort of easy believism that may acquire them to church frequently and makes them experience respectable. However, they seldom of all time see, much less obey, the true words of Jesus. They have reduced Christian belief into a simple set of spiritual activities and linguistic communication. But when the storms come, this belief system does n’t stand.
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The 4th point.
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In the storms you discover the stableness of your foundation
Look once more at those two houses Jesus described. From the exterior they look indistinguishable. You ca n’t state which 1 has a strong foundation and which 1 has the weak foundation. Foundations ca n’t be seen on the exterior. Merely when the storms come will the stableness of the house be known.
There are all sorts of people who are like houses.
Some are old houses, some are immature, some are big and some are small-but we all reasonably much look the same. But when the storms of life fury against us, that ‘s when we discover how stable our shelter truly is. I truly think God allows storms to come into our lives to prove us. He wants us to see for ourselves the quality of our foundation.
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A female parent noticed it was about clip for school to complete and since it looked similar rain, she drove toward the school to pick up her eight-year-old girl. She turned down the street to see her girl running towards her down the paving. A lightning bolt flashed and the small miss stopped in her paths and looked up towards the sky, smiled and once more began running towards her female parent ‘s auto. Another lightning bolt flashed and once more the small miss stopped, looked toward the sky, smiled and resumed running. When the small miss eventually arrived where her female parent was parked, her silent asked her about her unusual behavior. “ Why did you maintain halting and smiling
at the sky every clip there was buoy uping? ” she asked her girl. “ I had to, ma. God was taking my image. ”
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Indeed, it is during the storms of life God is taking our image to demo us how hardy our foundation is. God is non taking your image to impeach you. God loves you so much if He had a icebox, your image would be on it. But He wants you to see yourself whether or non your foundation is good.
I think most of us have had times in our lives when we fell apart under the storms from without and the emphasis from within. But Jesus is n’t merely speaking about one storm and one house you build. Merely as there are multiple storms in life, we are ever enabled to reconstruct our shelters against the storm. The truly foolish adult male is the 1 who rebuilds his life upon the same sand that failed him before! So, if you have found your belief system is on the unstable sand, that ‘s a valuable find! You wo n’t reconstruct until you are cognizant you need to.
Sometimes a awful storm can be your best friend when it reveals a faulty foundation. It can function as a wake-up call to demo you have to reconstruct. Remember, our God is the God of the 2nd chance-and the 3rd, 4th, and ten-thousandth opportunity! Remember you ca n’t avoid the storms and floods-they are to be expected. The positive point of Jesus ‘ fable is there is something we can make to keep our stableness and security when the storms autumn and the inundations rise.
The 5th point is: Storm-proof your life.
Dig deep and acquire rid of the soil! Build upon the stone of entire obeisance.
Look once more at what the wise adult male did.
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Verse 48 Tells us “ he dug down deep. ”
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Shallow belief and shallow life wo n’t happen the stone. It ‘s quicker and easier to construct your life upon the shallow sand.
Travel back with me in clip and see those two work forces constructing their places side by side. We ‘ll name one of them Sandy and one of them Rocky. Sandy completed his house in a few yearss. While he was traveling in, Rocky was still delving off.
Monday dark rolled about and Sandy was out back bar-b-quing lamb chops. He looked over at Rocky, still delving off. “ Hey Rocky, why are you working so hard? Come on over and fall in us. I ‘ve got tickets to the gladiator games this evening, you want travel? ” Rocky said, “ No thanks, Sandy, I ‘ve got to maintain excavation ’till I reach the stone. There ‘s a batch of soil in my life I ‘ve got to take. I ‘m afraid there ‘s a storm coming and I want to be prepared. ” Sandy looked at the sky and said, “ Storm? It ‘s beautiful conditions adult male! ” Finally, Rocky finished and from the exterior, both houses looked the same. Merely the storm will uncover the difference.
Spiritually talking, what goes up fast will come down fast.
Beware of instant Christianity or micro-cook religion. Keep delving until you reach the stone. The stone is obeisance to the Word of Jesus. If you build your life upon that, He promises the storms will still come and the inundations will still lift, but you will happen stableness in the storm.
Do n’t despair and state, “ That ‘s impossible, cipher is perfect! Besides, Jesus gave so many ‘words, ‘ who can obey them all? ” The nazarene does n’t anticipate flawlessness. All He asks for is a willingness to obey Him and a desire to set His words into pattern.
Do n’t worry about all the words of Jesus to get down with. Start with the five proceedingss it takes you to read the words predating this parable. Focus on kindness as described in poetry 31,
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“ Do to others as you would hold them make to you. ”
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That ‘s non all the words of Jesus, but it ‘s a good start.
Focus on the lone two bids He gave us: Love God with all your personality ; and Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Put delighting and honoring God as your top precedence. Accept the truth that God loves you and so love yourself so you can love others. Those are simple topographic points to get down to reconstruct the foundation of your life!
There is merely one manner to construct a house secure against a storm and that is to delve deep and lay its foundations on the stone. But delving deep can be troublesome. It is all excessively easy to be content with a superficial cognition of Christianity and a superficial, normal profession of religion without existent obeisance to Christ. But merely as there is merely one foundation, so merely those who by personal contact with him build straight and forthrightly on the foundation of His Word, believed, applied and performed, will last the storms here and afterlife.
So we come to the 6th point Jesus makes: You have n’t faced your biggest storm yet.
I would non be an obedient adherent myself if I neglected to state you Jesus is stating us all of the storms of this life are but warnings to the biggest storm we ‘ll of all time confront.
Merely before He gives this parable in the Sermon on the Mount, He makes this powerful point. Not everyone who says to me, “ Lord, Lord ” ( the same point He makes in Luke 6:46 – why do you name me “ Lord, Lord? ” ) will come in the land of Eden, but merely he who does the will of my Father who is in Eden. Many will sit to me on that twenty-four hours ( Judgement Day ) , “ Lord, Lord, did we non vaticinate in your name, and in your name thrust out devils and execute many miracles? ” Then I will state them obviously, “ I ne’er knew you. Away from me, you evildoers! ”
The biggest storm is confronting God ‘s Judgement. The same foundation that provides stableness against the storms of life will last the storm of opinion. That ‘s why it is so of import to construct your life upon the Rock of religion and obeisance to Jesus. Could it be God allows some of life ‘s storms to come our manner so we will see our current foundation is defective and we need to reconstruct it? If so, so the storms we endure in this life are but loving reminders from God about the quality of our foundation. If you have already built on the stone of obeisance, you have nil to fear-this concluding storm wo n’t touch you. Are you certain your foundation is secure?
On September 8, 1900 a great hurricane came barrelling out of the Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas seashore. With no warning, Galveston Island absorbed the brunt of this storm. The ramping air currents and the inundation tide devastated the metropolis of Galveston. It still ranks today as the most deathly natural catastrophe in American history with over 6,000 deceases. It was Galveston ‘s worst hr but every author since agrees the storm besides became Galveston ‘s finest hr. Rather than abandoning the island as many suggested, the subsisters decided to reconstruct. But they knew they could n’t reconstruct as earlier. Three civil applied scientists were hired to raise the full degree of the island by 12 pess. 16 million three-dimensional paces of soil and sand were pumped in from the sea underside. Before any construction was rebuilt, they dug down profoundly to do a house foundation. They built a big breakwater along the south seashore of the island. It really took 60 old ages to finish the current breakwater.
Make it work? In 1915 another hurricane of the same badness socked Galveston. Everyone held their corporate breaths and when the sky cleared, the island was flooded but about all the constructions survived and there was small loss of life.
I have seen it go on 100s of times. Peoples can be traveling along ticket in life until hardship all of a sudden strikes-and they find they are knocked off their pess and their foundation crumbles. This merely serves to demo them “ something is losing. ”
Forget the popular Television show-we are all subsisters! You are wise if you will let that prostration to actuate you to reconstruct your life upon the foundation of the stone of Jesus, because there will be more storms. What might hold been the worst experience of your life really becomes the experience taking to a new and better life for you.
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Is God utilizing this text and this message to state you that you need to reconstruct your life?
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To us, it is more than merely a vocal. Can you fall in us stating genuinely,
“ My hope is built on nil lupus erythematosus
than Jesus ‘ blood and righteousness.
I dare non swear the sweetest frame,
but entirely thin on Jesus ‘ name.
On Christ the solid stone I stand
all other land is droping sand.
All other land is droping sand. ”
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It ‘s clip to get down rebuilding!
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