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Transcript December 23/24, 2014

Waiting for the World to Change: The Gift Jesus Brings Aaron Brockett | Isaiah 1

Merry Christmas to you. If you have a Bible, go ahead and grab it and get to Matthew, chapter 1. We’re going to read verses 18 to 25 together. And If you didn’t bring a Bible with you, I will throw this passage up on the screen behind me. I think that at this time of year all of us probably face a certain pressure to get the right gift for the person or the group of people in our lives. We spend at least a little bit of time thinking about getting the right gift for that person to say, “Hey, I love you. I appreciate you.” We want to get that thing right. So, a couple of weeks ago I sent my wife a text and I said, “Sweetheart, is there anything specific that you would like to have this year for Christmas?” This is what she sent back. She said, “No, you don’t need to get me anything this year. Let’s just save the money. Maybe you can take me shopping after.” Just a quick pop quiz. How many of you think that that text message means, “No, you don’t need to get me anything. Let’s just save the money. Maybe you can take me shopping after.”? Just a show of hands. How many of you believe that is what that text message means. There are a few in the room. Now, if your hand is in the air, you’re a fool. Don’t take any offense to that. It’s a rookie mistake. I fell for it the first two or three years of our marriage. But after 15-‐and-‐a-‐half years of marriage, I don’t think so. That’s a trap. That’s what that is. That does not mean, “Don’t get me anything. Let’s just save the money. Take me shopping after.” So, I immediately went out – and it’s funny because some of you guys right now are like, “Okay, preacher. How long are you going to go? We have some last minute shopping to do,” because you fell for the text, didn’t you? You thought you didn’t need to get her anything. I think that all of us feel this certain pressure to get the right gift for somebody at Christmas. Here’s what I want to do in our time together tonight. I want us to spend a little bit of time thinking about the gift that Jesus brings to us. Now, I’ve lost track of how many Christmas Eve sermons I’ve preached over the years. I’ve preached a number of them and I’ll just say to you that preaching Christmas Eve sermons is both a great joy and a significant struggle. It’s a great joy in this sense. This is the greatest story ever told. You get a hold of this story, you wrap your mind around it, and if it gets into your heart then it will change your life. It will change the whole world. There is great joy in preaching what I’m getting ready to preach. There is also a significant struggle in it. It’s the sense that there are so many things around us that distract us from the impact of this sermon. So, what I want to do tonight is to look at Matthew’s account of the Christmas story and I want us to look at this with fresh eyes. Here’s the challenge with the Christmas story, especially for those of you who don’t find yourself in church often. Maybe this is the one time of year that you come. I don’t say that to make you feel guilty. I’m glad that you are here. The challenge is that, if you only come to church once a year, this is, primarily, the only text you have ever heard preached. So the challenge for me is that you think that you already know it, “I already know the Christmas story, Aaron. I could guess what

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you are getting ready to say.” So, I want us to take another look at what happened that fateful night in Bethlehem. Matthew, chapter 1, verses 18 to 25 says this, “Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.’ All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

‘Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel’ (which means, God with us). When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.”

Now, here’s what I want to do. I want to point out three things that Matthew wants us to know about the Christmas Story. In our time together, as clearly and as straight forward as I can manage, I want to roll out the gospel message for us tonight in a way that you might grasp it, in a way that you might understand it. Matthew does this beautifully. He includes three things here. He is basically saying, “Here’s the significance of the gift that Jesus brings to us. This is the meaning of the Christmas Story.”

When I say Christmas Story, what images come up in your mind? See the Christmas Story is not about a little boy with coke-‐bottle glasses who really wants a Red Ryder BB Gun. The Christmas Story is not about a grown Elf who grew up at the North Pole, eats really disgusting things, and who makes his way to New York City to be reunited with his long-‐lost dad. The Christmas Story is not about Clark Griswold trying to get a bonus at work to build a swimming pool for his family in their back yard. As awesome and as entertaining as those stories are – I’ve watched all of those movies multiple times, every year at Christmas – they compete with the true meaning of Christmas. So, what is the meaning? Well, Matthew tells us three things. The first thing that Matthew says is that the Christmas Story is a picture of messiness and imperfection. What we just read is most often referred to as the nativity scene. So, when I say the word “nativity” what do you think about? When you came into the lobby tonight, I don’t know if you saw it or not, but we have a nativity scene set up in our lobby. It is set up there every year. And when you walk by it, it looks really orderly – amazingly orderly. I’ve never seen farm animals that tame in my life. The cow is just looking at the Christ child, “Ahhh.” The sheep are standing there in perfect order. There’s nothing about that nativity scene that smells. Every year I think about bringing in fresh manure and just sitting it in the back and just wonder what would happen then. But it smells nice and it looks nice. Our family has a nativity scene set up in our living room that just looks so peaceful and orderly, but there is nothing about what we just read that is peaceful and orderly. The nativity scene is full of crude, unusual details. It is a picture of disorganization. Notice, if you will, in the passage, in verse 18, Matthew says, “Now the birth of Christ took place this way.” He doesn’t just say, “God was born into the world.” He doesn’t say, “Jesus was born and grew up in Nazareth.” He gives us these disturbing details about Jesus coming into the world.



For starters, His mom and dad were not yet married. That says scandalous. Mary was, most likely, a teen aged girl. They were not yet married. They were poor. They didn’t have a place to lay her child. These are details that are embarrassing. These are details that are humiliating. If it were to have happened to you or to me it is likely that we would not draw attention to the details of it because, quite frankly, it’s embarrassing. Now, one of things I know about an expectant mother is that she wants everything to be in order before her child arrives, right ladies? We call this nesting, don’t we? So you get the baby’s room ready, the crib put together, and you get the stroller all set, and the diaper bag – this is all six months before the baby actually comes. You’ve got it all there at the door ready to go. And it’s a wonderful, beautiful thing. We have four kids. My wife went through the nesting phase with all four of them. But when our third was about three or four weeks from being due, Lindsay went in to the doctor on a Friday. I remember that. She went in to get a check up just to see how she and the baby were doing and she calls me on my cell phone in tears. And she said, “I just went in for a check-‐up. The doctor is very concerned about the baby. She isn’t growing like she should. She’s not receiving the nutrients she needs. She actually hasn’t grown at all since my last check-‐up. The doctor is afraid that if he allows me to go full term there is a risk that she might me stillborn.” And then she said this through tears. She said, “They want to induce me today.” She’s weeping. She’s sobbing. I’m trying my best to try to console her on the phone and I’m going out to my car to get to where she is. And through the tears she says this, “Aaron, they can’t induce me today. The baby’s room isn’t ready.” I was like, “I was thinking that as well. First was your health, then the baby’s and, of course, the baby’s room.” You see, that’s the wonderful thing about moms.

Now, think about Mary for a second. This is most likely not the way that she would have wanted to be introduced into motherhood. She’s not yet married. She’s a teen-‐aged girl. Could you imagine the argument that she and Joseph would have gotten into when she came home and said, “I’m pregnant.”? And she says, “I’m telling you. I swear it’s by the Holy Spirit.” And he’s like, “Is that a code word for Tom? I’m going to take Tom out.”

She’s like, “I want to give birth to our child in the comforts of our own home.” And he’s like, “Well, I got this thing in the mail and I have to go to Bethlehem. I have to file for this census.” And she’s like, “Are you kidding me? I’m nine months pregnant and we have to go on a road trip?” He doesn’t even make arrangements. They get there and there is no place for them to stay.

Now, most often, we think that where they were was a barn or a stable. It’s possible. But it’s also very likely that it was nothing more than a cave. It was a side of a rock that had been carved where farm animals were kept. That’s the only place where the Son of God had to be born on that fateful night in Bethlehem.

Then she has to lay her child in a manger. Do you know what a manger is? It’s just a cleaned-‐up word for a feed trough. I don’t know if any of you have been on a farm and have looked into a feed trough, it’s gross. And that’s where she laid the baby Jesus.

Jesus grew up in a little town called Nazareth. Do you know that Nazareth was only about 10 acres of land and about 300 residents lived there? Nazareth was so poor it didn’t even have a proper sewage system. It would have smelled. That’s the environment where the Son of God spent His childhood days.



Mary and Joseph were so poor that when it came time to herald the news that they had a child, which families who lived in the First Century often did when they had a baby or anything big happened in their family (they didn’t have Facebook or social media). They would hire a herald to go and herald the news around town. Mary and Joseph were so poor that God had to commission shepherds to do the job. And shepherds were despised human beings. People did not like shepherds yet those were the people who announced that God’s Son had been born.

You look at all of the details of the nativity and it is a picture of disorder. It is an absolute mess. Now, here’s the thing that I was trying to think about last week as I was studying this passage. I thought, “Okay, you get one or two of these unusual details and it is just unfortunate. You stack all of them together; God’s trying to say something.” What is God trying to say?

I think God is trying to say this. Any of your lives look a bit messy? Any of your lives look a bit disorderly? Have any of you received information within the last week or two that has sort of gotten you rocked back on your heels and you are like, “I did not see that coming.”?

Every single person in this room knows how to clean up. Every single person in this room knows how to hide and suppress the mess that is underneath the surface. Perhaps there is no time greater than at Christmas. Man, you guys look really good. And the decorations around the building, and around your house, and around the neighborhoods look really good. You drive by the houses in my neighborhood and look at the lights and you’d be like, “Man, those houses look like the family has got it all together.” But I’ve been around long enough to know that that is likely not the case. I know my own heart too well.

See, we may suppress it, especially at Christmas. But on Friday the mess that is in our soul will still be there. Now, we might throw a New Year’s resolution or two at it. But when has that ever helped? See verse 21 is key. It says, “She will bear a Son and you shall call His name Jesus,” listen to this, “for He will save…” That’s rescue language. That’s admitting, “I’m in a vulnerable position. I can’t do anything to save myself.” He’s going to save, “His people,” that’s ownership talk, “from their sins.”

Sin is just another word for mess. Sin is just another word for the self-‐inflicted mess that I’ve brought into my life. So, the message of Christmas is that Jesus saves us from our self-‐inflicted mess by entering into our mess. He didn’t sit back and say, “I’m not going to get my hands dirty. I’m just going to show you how to get saved.” He dives right into our mess. He’s right with us. That’s what the nativity scene says.

Several years ago when my son, Connor, who is now 12, was just a toddler, when he first learned to walk, we went on vacation with my mom and dad and we were at a swimming pool. I was on the other side of the pool doing something and my mom was with my son. He had his swim diaper and his little swimsuit on.

He wasn’t big enough to swim yet so she had him by the side of the pool and she was letting him put his feet into the water. And she was fully clothed. We were going to go out to have dinner that night so she was ready to go. She had a pair of shorts on, some kind of a blouse, her hair was done and she had her cell phone in her pocket but she sat by the side of the pool to let Conner play.

She needed to go back to a chair by the pool to get something so she scooted him back from the pool thinking that there was no way that he could get back to the edge fast enough. She went over to get something and from across the pool I noticed my son crawling toward the edge. He gets right up to the edge and he goes head first right into the water and he’s just kind of floating there.



So I immediately take off in a full sprint around the pool trying to get to my son. The life guard blows the whistle, “Walk.” And I’m like, “Forget you.” I was hauling across. I didn’t care if I slipped and fell. And as I’m running I’m looking at my mom and I yelled across, “Mom, Conner’s in the water.” And she spins around. I’ve never seen my mom move so fast in my life. She’s like Usain Bolt, man. She’s running slow motion Bay Watch. And she gets right to the – I just equated my mom to Bay Watch – ugh. She runs right up to the edge and without even thinking, she just dives in fully clothed, hair done, cell phone in pocket. And she dives in and she scoops him up and gets him over to the side – you want to know the word for that? Save…he couldn’t save himself and she couldn’t save him by just coming up to the edge and saying, “Come on now. Come on. Come over here to the side.” The only way she could get to him was if she jumped into the situation that he was in. The message of Christmas is that God jumped into our humanity. That’s the message of the nativity. That’s what happened on the fateful night in Bethlehem. Have you ever wondered why Jesus had to come as a little baby? Why God just didn’t beam Him down like Scotty? Why He didn’t come here to earth as a fully grown man? It’s because He says, “I will come as a human being. I will start with the most common experience that every human being has had and that is the experience of being born. I will come into this world as a helpless, slimy, wrinkled, screaming, pooping baby.” I said “poop” in church. Come back kids. It’s legal. He comes fully vulnerable. He is raised by two sinners. The author of Hebrews says, “We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses.” I love that. If Jesus would have come any other way, if He would have come as royalty, if He would have come with a silver spoon in His mouth, there is no way that any of us could have related to Him. He came in humility. Here’s the second thing that Matthew is saying to us from this passage. Christmas is a statement that Jesus is God. If you notice in verse 23 he says, “Behold…you will call His name Immanuel (which means God…).” Now Matthew is introducing Jesus in the very first book of the New Testament, in the very first chapter, and right away Matthew wants us to know that He is God. And the simple meaning of the word Christmas is Creator, King of the Universe, who has become a human being. That’s the message of Christmas. This is foreshadowed all throughout the Old Testament and it’s fulfilled in the New Testament. If you just read through the pages of the gospels, Jesus keeps coming back to His identity over, and over, and over, and over again. Right now, as a church, we’re studying through the Gospel of John and all through the Gospel of John the most common question that is asked of Jesus is, “Who are You?” And over, and over again He says, “I’m God. You want to know what God is like? Look at me. You want to know what God would say? Listen to what I say. You want to know what God would do? Watch what I do.” So the distinction here in Jesus is that Matthew says to us right away that God became a human being and was born among us. That is the thing that sets the Christian faith apart from every other religion or system of belief around the world. In fact, there’s no way that any other religion would say that their deity would come to us. That’s scandalous, that’s sacrilegious. But the gospel message says, “God came near. God wrapped Himself in fallen human flesh in order to relate to us.”



Jesus said this in John 14, verse 6. He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life nobody comes to the Father except through Me.” Now, I don’t know how that verse hits you. For some of you, you might emotionally recoil at that because you’re saying, “I don’t think it sounds right that Jesus would say that He is the only way that you can get saved.” I think I can understand, emotionally, why you might struggle with that. But, think about this for just a minute. Imagine that you get recruited by the Navy Seals to go and rescue a hostage somewhere. That can happen, just use your imagination. Just imagine that you get recruited and you get trained and they say, “We’re going to send you on a mission to go and rescue somebody that is being held hostage.” So, you go in and you get behind enemy lines, and you get up to the hostage, and you cut him loose, and you say, “Follow me out.” And you get them out to safety, you get them back to America, and you escort them safely back home. Then Anderson Cooper and his crew go to interview that former hostage and you’re sitting at home watching it on TV. And Anderson Cooper asked the question, “Who saved you?” And you sit back and you say, “Alright, here we go.” What if that former hostage said, “Oh, no one in particular?” “Actually, I saved myself. I was able to untie, I was able to get loose, I was able to outmaneuver…” Let me just ask you. How are you going to feel in that moment? You’re going to say, “Now, wait a second. That’s not what went down. I rescued you. I saved you.” When Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life and that nobody comes to the Father except through Me,” what He is saying is I was the one who came to rescue, I was the one who came to save, I came in the form of a helpless baby so that you might be reconciled to God.” Yet all the time, as a pastor, when I sit down to talk to people they say, “The thing that I have a problem with when it comes to the gospel message is that it sounds so narrow, and it sounds so exclusive. I just can’t buy into that because I really like to say that it doesn’t really matter what you believe as long as you sincerely believe it. And, I think that every path eventually leads to the same destination.” And, as lovingly and as directly as I can say it, “No they don’t” Just study the paths, look at what they teach. There is no other system of belief that says that God came near to save you. There is no other system of belief that is a rescue mission. They say, “Do more. Be better. Do good. Be more sincere. Get more notches on your belt and maybe you might be accepted. Maybe, but you won’t find out until it’s too late.” The gospel message says that you can have joy and assurance immediately as you rest in the person of Jesus Christ. For some of you that might not be enough. Let me illustrate it this way. Let me say that you are sick and so you go to see a doctor and the doctor says to you, “Hey, I think you’ll be okay. Just go home, eat some chicken noodle soup, take a couple of Advil, get plenty of rest. You’ll be fine.” But a couple of days go by and you still feel awful so you decide to get a second opinion from another doctor. So you go to another doctor. That doctor checks you out and that doctor says, “You have a terminal illness. We need to operate right away. We need to place you on this medication. And then you may have a 50/50 chance of surviving.” Now, as you are driving home what’s going through your mind? Well there are probably a number of things. But I can guarantee you what’s not going through your mind. You’re not thinking to yourself,



“How narrow minded and exclusive of that second doctor to suggest that I have a terminal illness when that other doctor said I didn’t. I think that, essentially, those doctors are saying the same thing.” No they’re not. One of them is right and one of them is wrong and one of them might be crazy but now it’s up to you to try to figure out who is right and who is wrong. They are not being exclusive or single minded. They are saying fundamentally different things. So, the mantra of the human heart simply says this, “It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you sincerely believe it.” The gospel message says with all compassion, “It’s much more serious than you think. You and I are worse off than what we think. But we are more loved that we can possibly dare to imagine.” See, you and I are not mistakers in need of a life-‐coach. We’re sinners in need of a Savior. I would imagine that there are a number of you here today who have had really bad experiences in church and maybe somewhere along the line you got the wrong impression as to what the gospel message is. Instead of hearing that it was a rescue mission, instead of hearing that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone – what you heard is that God is mad at you because you are bad. What you heard is that God is always judging. What you heard is that you’re not accepted here because you are damaged goods. That is a lie. That is a falsehood. And you went the other way. Here’s the beauty of the gospel message. Only an all powerful God could change the world by willing to become powerless. Now, the way in which we respond to that is by becoming powerless ourselves and dropping to our knees and getting rid of our pride, and saying, “Lord, I’ll let you rescue me. I’ll lean into the grace of Jesus Christ.” Here’s the last thing that Matthew teaches us from this passage. Christmas is the announcement that God is with us. He is God who is “with”. Not God who is at a distance, not God who has stayed back, but a God who is up close and personal. That’s what happened on the fateful night in Bethlehem – God came near to us. How many of you have ever had a long distance relationship? Aren’t those hard? Sometimes those things work out, but not often because one of the things that a relationship needs is close proximity. And Matthew says to us, he says to Mary and Joseph, you’re going to call His name Immanuel which literally means, God who is with… Now, that doesn’t mean a whole lot to us until we come to understand that prior to the birth of Jesus Christ, every time God came near it was an absolutely terrifying experience. Much of our problem when it comes to trying to grasp the gospel message is that we have too low a view of God. We just think that He’s like a small, little Oz figure on the other side of the Universe pulling levers. But, He is more awesome than we can ever dare to imagine. And whenever God would show up it was terrifying. So, when God showed up to Job, He shows up in the form of a tornado, a whirlwind, and a hurricane. When God showed up to Abraham He showed up in the form of a smoking furnace moving through the air. When God came near to the Israelites He came in the form of a pillar of fire and when the temple was built God showed up in the form of the Shekinah Glory cloud that was so powerful that it literally knocked people off of their feet. That’s how God came near all through the Old Testament. And then all of a sudden, here in Matthew, chapter 1, how did God come near? In the form of a baby, the most vulnerable, helpless thing that you can imagine. You see, in Christ God comes near in a way



that is approachable and in a way that is understandable. Who doesn’t love a baby? Goochie, goochie, goochie, goo. You see a baby and you just want to come up and grab it – you just want to protect it even if it’s not yours, right? And God came in that form. Now, one of my concerns that stems out of my own personal experience is this. I grew up in church. I was a young man who was in church every single Sunday from the age of zero to the age of 17 and I never understood the gospel message. If you were to ask me as a 12-‐year-‐old, as a 14-‐year-‐old, as a 16-‐year-‐old, “Aaron are you saved?” I would answer, “Yeah, I know God. I believe in God.” That is how I would have said it. I would have said, “Yeah, sure I believe in God.” But, I want you to know that the gospel message is not the gospel of just belief. It’s have you placed trust, have you placed your life into the hands of Christ? I’m not asking if you believe in God. I would imagine a great percentage of people in this room would say that they believe in God. The question is do you believe in God generally or do you believe in God, do you know God personally? Those things are not the same. See, I’m afraid that some of you know God sort of like you know Andrew Luck, or Denzel Washington, or Sandra Bullock or whoever your favorite athlete or movie star is. You might say, “Yeah, I think I know them. I watch them play. I watch their movies. I watch them on TV.” You know them generally, you know about them, but you don’t know them personally. I think that a number of us know about God, we believe in God vaguely…somewhere. The message of Christmas is that you can know Him personally through the person of Jesus Christ. Maybe the reason why, even as I speak tonight, that some of your souls are not stirred up for the gospel is because you think that, “All of this religious stuff is fine for my family and my friends, but it’s really not,” have you ever said this? “…my thing.” It is because you only know about God. You don’t know God personally. Listen to me – it’s always personal. And it’s never transformational until it gets personal. And the message of Christmas is that you can meet God personally. One of my favorite historical figures is a guy by the name of Martin Luther. Martin Luther taught the Book of Romans, which is found in the Bible. He taught the Book of Romans in a seminary before he became a Christian. Now, if you have ever read the Book of Romans you know that it is, perhaps, one of the most difficult books in the Bible to understand. And, Martin Luther taught it in a seminary before he became a believer. Martin Luther confessed his sins twice a day. He partook of the Sacrament before he became a believer. Martin Luther participated in all kinds of religious activities before he became a Christian. That’s possible to do. It’s possible to attend church every weekend and believe in God and yet not really respond to the gospel. But then Martin Luther says this. One day he was reading Romans, chapter 1, verse 17 and he realized that all along he had been trying to earn his righteousness and be good on his own merit. And he said this, “I suddenly realized that it is in Jesus Christ. He came and died for me to fulfill the requirements, therefore the righteousness I needed to be acceptable to God was something I had to receive as a gift. And, at that moment I felt ushered into God’s presence.” At that moment he came to know God, not just generally, but personally through the person of Jesus Christ. This was after having served in the ministry, attending church, and doing great things. He moved from a general experience of God to knowing the God who is with…



My prayer all week is that you would have that same experience too. My prayer all week is that maybe some people who are in this room would say, “You know what? December the 24th in 2014 at a Christmas Eve service is the day I moved from knowing God generally to knowing God personally. That’s my spiritual birthday.” How easy would that be to remember? And you can do it. See, the essence of the gospel message is not that it calls you to do something more but it reminds you of what Jesus came into the world to do on your behalf. Don’t make it harder than it has to be and don’t overlook the graveness of your situation. God came near. He dove into the humanity of your mess to save you up out of that mess if you would just release yourself to Him. It’s as simple as this. By grace we are saved through faith in Jesus Christ alone – Immanuel, God with you. Father, we come to You right now. I thank You for the awesome power of this message. And yet, I’m reminded about what Paul often said regarding the foolishness of preaching, in the sense that I can stand up here and try to declare the power of the gospel message, and it feels like my tongue just gained 20 pounds because, in a sense, either somebody’s heart will receive this and be transformed by it or they will brush it off as foolishness. But, Father, I’ll gladly be a fool for You and for the gospel. I pray tonight that this would not just be another quaint Christmas Eve service where we would come and sing some songs and have dinner with the family and open gifts, as wonderful as those things and those traditions might be, but that maybe we would do a heart check to realize that we are in worse shape than we ever thought but that we are more loved than we ever dreamed. And You came on a rescue mission through the person of Jesus Christ to reconcile us and to bring us up out of the mess that we are in. So, God, tonight I pray that Your Holy Spirit would do work within every one of us here and remind us of the power of the message of Christmas. God came near even to you, even to me. He came. We ask this in Jesus’ name. And the church says, Amen.

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