ARTICLE 20 . THE GOSPEL AND ITS INFLUENCE
1. THE COVENANT OF WORKS BEING BROKEN BY SIN, AND MADE UNPROFITABLE FOR LIFE,(USELESS FOR GIVING LIFE) GOD WAS PLEASED TO PROMISE CHRIST, THE SEED OF THE WOMAN(1), AS THE MEANS OF CALLING THE ELECT AND BRINGING TO LIFE WITHIN THEM FAITH AND REPENTANCE (2). IN THIS PROMISE THE SUBSTANCE (ALL THE HEART AND ESSENTIAL MATTER) OF THE GOSPEL WAS REVEALED AND SHOWN TO BE EFFECTUAL (THE VALID AND EFFECTIVE WAY) FOR THE CONVERSION AND SALVATION OF SINNERS.
(1).GEN 3:15 (2). REV.13:8
2. THIS PROMISE OF CHRIST AND THE SALVATION WHICH COMES BY HIM IS REVEALED ONLY BY THE WORD OF GOD (3). THE WORKS OF CREATION AND PROVIDENCE WITH THE LIGHT OF NATURE DO NOT REVEAL CHRIST OR HIS GRACE EVEN IN A GENERAL OR OBSCURE (SHADOWY WAY) WAY (4). HOW MUCH LESS, THEREFORE, CAN THOSE WHO ARE DEVOID OF THE REVELATION OF CHRIST BY THE PROMISE (OR THE GOSPEL) BE ENABLED BY THE LIGHT OF NATURE TO ARRIVE AT SAVING FAITH OR REPENTANCE (5).
(3).ROM 1.17 (4).ROM10.14-17 (5).PROV 29.18, ISA 25:7; 60. 2-3.
3. PARAPHRASE: THE REVELATION OF THE GOSPEL TO SINNERS, GIVEN AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND IN MANY SEPARATE PARTS, COMPLETE WITH PROMISES AND INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT THE RESPONSE WHICH IS REQUIRED, HAS BEEN GRANTED TO NATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS SOLELY ACCORDING TO SOVEREIGN WILL AND GOOD PLEASURE OF GOD (6). IT WAS NEVER GRANTED TO THEM BY VIRTUE OF THEIR PROMISING (OR SHOWING ANY GOOD INTENTIONS) TO DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO THE RIGHT THINGS, AND CHANGE THEIR WAYS , GUIDED BY COMMON SENSE ALONE; FOR NO ONE HAS EVER MADE SUCH A PROMISE IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES NOR CAN DO SO (7).
THEREFORE IN ALL AGES THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL HAS BEEN GRANTED TO INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS, WHETHER TO A GREAT EXTENT OR A LIMITED EXTENT (WITH CONSIDERABLE VARIATION) ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF THE WILL OF GOD.
(6).PSA.147.20; ACTS 16.7 (7). 2COR 4:4-6
4. ALTHOUGH THE GOSPEL IS THE ONLY OUTWARD MEANS OF REVEALING CHRIST AND SAVING GRACE, AND AS SUCH IS TOTALLY SUFFICIENT TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, YET MORE IS NECESSARY IF MEN WHO ARE DEAD IN TRESPASSES ARE TO BE BORN AGAIN, BROUGHT TO LIFE OR REGENERATED. IT IS NECESSARY FOR THERE TO BE AN EFFECTUAL, INSUPERABLE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE WHOLE SOUL (EVERY PART OF IT) TO PRODUCE IN THEM A NEW SPIRITUAL LIFE (8). WITHOUT THIS NO OTHER MEANS WILL BRING ABOUT THEIR CONVERSION TO GOD (9).
(8). PSA 110:3; 1COR 2:14; EPH 1.19-20. (9) JOHN 6:44; 2COR4:4-6.
JOHN 3:1- 15. THE GOSPEL AND ITS INFLUENCE EXPLAINED.
WHAT/WHO HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST INFLUENCE UPON YOUR LIFE TO DATE? YOUR MOTHER – YOUR FATHER A TEACHER- A BOOK YOU’VE READ – A MOVEMENT YOU’VE FOLLOWED – THE CHURCH YOU’VE ATTENDED- A FRIEND YOU’VE ADMIRED – THE WORK YOUR COMMITTED TO - THE MONEY YOU’VE INVESTED - ALL OF THESE THINGS CAN HAVE A BIG INFLUENCE UPON OUR LIVES UPON THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF OUR LIVES FOR GOOD OR BAD . .. BUT THE BIGGEST OF ALL INFLUENCES FOR GOOD UPON A LIFE – HAS TO BE THE GOSPEL AND ITS INFLUENCE.
THE GOSPEL – GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST, IS THE SAVING MESSAGE OF CHRIST CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTED (1COR15:1-4) CHRIST JESUS WHO CAME INTO THIS WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS (1TIM 1:15) THIS GOSPEL WHICH IS ACCOMPANIED BY THE SAVING POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO BRINGS, CONVICTION OF SIN, WHO BRINGS NEW BIRTH, INDWELLING THE BELIEVER IMPARTING SALVATION AND AN ONGOING WORK OF SANCTIFICATION BRINGING INCREASING HOLINESS, IMPARTING FORGIVENESS OF SINS, PEACE WITH GOD, FAITH HOPE AND LOVE THE ASSURANCE OF HEAVEN AND ETERNAL LIFE. (JOHN.3: 5-7, 16:8 12-14, 1THES 1:5 ROM 8:1-4).
1. NICODEMUS WAS ORIGINALLY INFLUENCED BY RELIGION A COVENANT OF WORKS 1-2.
NICODEMUS THE MAN AND HIS INFLUENCE
NICODEMUS WAS NO ORDINARY CITIZEN , HE WAS A JEW AND DEEPLY INFLUENCED BY THE PHARISAIC WAY OF LIFE - HE WAS A DEEPLY RELIGIOUS PHARISEE – A LEADER OF THE JEWS – A MEMBER OF THE SANHEDRIN – A RELIGIOUS GOVERNING BODY - NICODEMUS WAS COMMITTED HIS WHOLE LIFE TO STUDYING AND APPLYING THE LAW IN EVERY AREA OF HIS DAILY LIFE . HIS PHARISAIC UPBRINGING HELD A BIG INFLUENCE ON THE WHOLE OF HIS LIFE - FACT THEY ADDED A HEDGE OF TRADITIONS AROUND 613 LAWS IN THE TORAH WHICH THEY METICULOUSLY OBEYED (MATT15:1-3). DESPITE THIS PASSION FOR RELIGION WE CAN GATHER FROM THIS ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS THIS INFLUENCE DIDN’T SEEM TO BE ENOUGH FOR HIM HE HAD ALL THE TEACHING & RELIGION BUT SOMETHING WAS MISSING.
YOU SEE NICODEMUS HAD BEEN INFLUENCED HERE (POINT TO THE HEAD) BUT AS YET HE HAD NOT BEEN INFLUENCED HERE (POINT TO THE HEART) WITH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. HE HAD RELIGION AND HE HAD IT GOOD, BUT HE HAD NO RELATIONSHIP AND THAT WAS BAD.
APPLICATION
DO YOU KNOW THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN OUR CHURCHES IN THE UK WHO HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY RELIGION FROM A CHILDHOOD THROUGH ADULTHOOD AND THEY MAY EVEN HOLD IMPORTANT POSITIONS IN THE CHURCHES THEY REPRESENT (DEACONS/LAY READERS/ SECRETARIES/ ELDERS/ WARDENS/ VICARS/ MEMEBERS/ ORGANISTS/ CHOIR MEMBERS THEY ARE COMMITTED TO THE CHURCH AND TO RELIGION BUT THEY HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST.
THESE INDIVIDUALS LIKE NICODEMUS HAVE BEEN THROUGH ALL THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR PARTICULAR DENOMINATION AS ADDED - AND HOLD TO THEM TENACIOUSLY (PHARISEES ADDED LAWS) THESE PEOPLE DO ALL THAT THE CHURCH TRADITIONS EXPECTED OF THEM FOR THIS IS THE MEANS OF THEIR SALVATION A COVENANT OF WORKS.
ON THE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH CAN CLEAN YOU UP - YOU CAN BECOME A PILLAR OF THE COMMUNITY SEEN AS THE RELIGIOUS PERSON - YOU CAN LOOK REALLY GOOD AND THOUGHT OF AS GOOD AND RELIGIOUS PERSON ( LIKE NICODEMUS) BUT THE CHURCH CANNOT SAVE ONLY CHRIST CAN SAVE YOU! THE WARNING HERE IS YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE OUTWARD SIGNS OF RELIGION - BUT WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS THE GOSPEL AND ITS INFLUENCE TO BRING NEW BIRTH AND A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
THE PENNY WAS DROPPING FOR NICODEMUS
(V1-2) ALTHOUGH NICODEMUS WAS GREATLY INFLUENCED BY RELIGION HE KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS MISSING IN HIS LIFE - HENCE THE VISIT TO JESUS HE COMES TO JESUS – UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS – (AVOID PUBLICITY –MAYBE SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE- JUST AN INCIDENTAL) WE KNOW HE HAD BECOME AWARE OF THE MIRACULOUS WORKS OF JESUS (2) HE ACKNOWLEDGES JESUS AS A RABBI (YET WITH NO FORMAL TRAINING) AND THAT HE WAS A TEACHER FROM GOD. HE WAS BEING TAKEN OUT OF HIS COMFORT ZONE – BUT RATHER THAN IGNORING IT –OR FIGHT AGAINST IT LIKE OTHERS – HE WANTED TO KNOW MORE.
CAN I ASK YOU HAS THE PENNY DROPPED FOR YOU? – HAVE YOU COME TO SEE - WHO JESUS IS AND WHAT HE CAME TO DO FOR YOU - HE TELLS US WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN (3) .
HAVE YOU ENTERED OUT OF RELIGION AND ENTERED INTO A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST. HAVE YOU GOT RELIGION OR A RELATIONSHIP (ORDINARY PEOPLE CANNOT SEE -UNDERSTAND IT).
IF ITS RELIGION YOUR LIVING UNDER THE IDEA THAT YOUR WORKS ARE GOING TO BE THE MEANS OF YOUR SALVATION - IF ITS A RELATIONSHIP YOU LIVING BY FAITH AND YOU KNOW YOU ARE SAVED BY GRACE (EPH2:8). JESUS SAID, NO-ONE CAN ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD UNLESS HE/SHE IS BORN AGAIN (JHN3:3) .
2. THE GOSPEL INFLUENCE COMES TO US THROUGH THE WORD (ROM10:14-17, JHN3: 3- 15).
SO IF ITS A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WE NEED - AND NOT MERELY A RELIGION – AND ITS NEW BIRTH WE NEED AS JESUS INSISTS (3) - HOW DOES THAT TAKE PLACE – HOW CAN WE COME TO THAT POINT OF ENTERING INTO A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST OF BEING BORN AGAIN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD.
• JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688) SAID THE EGG’S NO CHICK BY FALLING FROM THE HEN, NOR MAN A CHRISTIAN TILL HE’S BORN AGAIN. (BORN AGAIN CONVEYS THAT IT HAPPENS FROM ABOVE – IT CONVEYS ITS A WORK OF GOD THE SPIRIT – WHO APPLIES THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST.
FIRSTLY WE MUST UNDERSTAND IF WE ARE EVER TO BE BORN AGAIN WE MUST HEAR AND RESPOND TO THE WORD OF GOD (ROM10:14-17). THERE ARE SOME CLUES RIGHT THROUGH THE WHOLE BIBLE IN THE OT GOD ALWAYS SENT PROPHETS WHO SPOKE THE WORD OF GOD AND HOW THE PEOPLE RESPONDED SAID A LOT ABOUT THERE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IN THE GOSPELS THE SON OF GOD HIMSELF BECAME THE THE WORD AND DWELT AMONGST US (JHN1:14).
A) USING THE WORD TO CONVEY THE GOSPEL - OT TYPE – NT FULFILMENT
HERE WE HAVE THE WORDS OF CHRIST COMMUNICATING TO NICODEMUS THE VERY HEART OF THE GOSPEL - OF THE NEED FOR NEW BIRTH (V3) HE ALSO EXPLAIN HIS PURPOSE AND AIM TO BRING THAT NEW BIRTH ABOUT - JESUS WAS THE WORD HE EMBODIED THE MESSAGE IN HIS LIFE- HERE WERE GIVEN A HINT OF HIS PURPOSE PRIOR TO HIS CRUCIFIXION(14-15).
JESUS SHARES WITH NICODEMUS THAT JUST AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SNAKE IN THE WILDERNESS (NUM 21:8-9) SO THE SON OF MAN MUST BE LIFTED UP AND EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.(14-15). (JHN.7:28, 12:32).
REF – CRUCIFIXION (LIFTED UP) RESURRECTION (LIFTED UP) EXALTATION (LIFTED UP) JESUS HERE USED THIS OT INCIDENT WHICH WAS A TYPE POINTING TO THE GREATER FULFILMENT OF HIMSELF BEING LIFTED UP AND PEOPLE LOOKING TO HIM AND BELIEVING RECEIVING ETERNAL LIFE.
HOW NICODEMUS RESPONDED AND HOW WE RESPOND TO THE WORD OF GOD COMMUNICATED MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE TO WHETHER WE WILL BE BORN AGAIN OR NOT. (ROM 10:14-17) FAITH COMES BY HEARING AND HEARING THE WORD OF GOD, AND HOW SHALL THEY HEAR WITHOUT A PREACHER. WHAT DID JESUS SAY (MRK16:15,20 MATT.28:19-20).
NO-ONE CAN BE SAVED WITHOUT HEARING SOMETHING OF THE WORD OF GOD –THE MESSAGE IS OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION. THIS IS WHAT JESUS SHARED WITH NICODEMUS AND WITH HIS DISCIPLES, THIS IS WHAT THE APOSTLES WERE SENT OUT TO SHARE AND WHAT THE EARLY CHURCH PROCLAIMED AND WHAT CHRISTIANS STILL DO TO THIS VERY DAY THEY COMMUNICATE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST .
3. THE GOSPEL AND ITS INFLUENCE BRINGS NEW BIRTH BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD (3-9)
IF ANYBODY IS TO BE BORN AGAIN THE WORD OF GOD MUST BE ACCOMPANIED WITH THE DYNAMIC POWER OF THE SPIRIT TO BRING NEW BIRTH. JESUS SAID YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN OR BORN FROM ABOVE IT FURTHER TIES IN WITH WHAT HE SAID EARLIER JOHN 1:12 THAT ALL WHO BELIEVE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD.
A) THE GOSPEL AND THE SPIRIT
SIMPLY SHARING THE WORD OF GOD - WITHOUT THE SPIRIT OF GOD - IN OUR LIVES WILL MEAN THAT PROCLAIMING AND TEACHING WORD WILL BE DEVOID OF ANY POWER.
THE CHURCH THAT IS DEVOID OF THE SPIRIT, AND LAYS NO EMPHASIS UPON THE NEED TO BE BORN AGAIN - WILL BE A PLACE WHERE YOU WILL HEAR A LIBERAL GOSPEL – WHERE HUMANS APPLY THEIR PHILOSOPHIES – CURRENT MORAL TRENDS - UPON THE SCRIPTURES – THEY WILL BE LIGHTWEIGHT ON OBEDIENCE TO THE SCRIPTURES – THEY WILL DISTORT THE TRUTH. THEY ARE THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND - THESE PLACES WILL BE DEVOID OF A GOSPEL INFLUENCE WHICH BRINGS (GENUINE) LIFE CHANGING POWER OF THE SPIRIT AND WORD MINISTRIES TO IMPACT OTHERS .
OSWALD CHAMBER WROTE. “THE BIBLE IS A UNIVERSE OF REVELATION FACTS WHICH HAVE NO MEANING FOR US UNTIL WE ARE BORN FROM ABOVE; WHEN WE ARE BORN AGAIN WE SEE IN IT WHAT WE NEVER SAW BEFORE. WE ARE LIFTED INTO THE REALM WHERE JESUS LIVES AND WE BEGIN TO SEE WHAT HE SEES”. OSWALD CHAMBERS (1874-1917). EDYTHE DRAPER, DRAPER’S BOOK OF QUOTATIONS FOR THE CHRISTIAN WORLD (WHEATON: TYNDALE HOUSE PUBLISHERS, INC., 1992). ENTRY 709.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT GOSPELS YOU KNOW......GAL1: 9 IF ANYONE IS PREACHING TO YOU ANOTHER GOSPEL CONTRARY TO THE ONE YOU RECEIVED LET HIM BE ACCURSED. V11. FOR I WOULD HAVE YOU KNOW, BROTHERS THAT THE GOSPEL THAT WAS PREACHED BY ME IS NOT MANS GOSPEL (MADE UP) BUT IT WAS RECEIVED THROUGH REVELATION.
CONSIDER THE PROOF IN THE PUDDING 1THES 1:5-BECAUSE OUR GOSPEL CAME TO YOU NOT ONLY IN WORD, BUT IN POWER AND IN THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WITH FULL CONVICTION.
B) “WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN” UNPACKED.
SO OFTEN WHEN YOU SPEAK ABOUT THE NEED FOR NEW BIRTH TO MANY PEOPLE THEY SIMPLY HAVE A VACANT LOOK UPON THERE FACES – THEY CANT UNDERSTAND –
A BIT LIKE NICODEMUS..... “HOW CAN THIS BE?” (9) IT JUST DOESNT ADD UP FOR THEM – THEY THINK IN THE NATURAL (4) HOW CAN A MAN BE BORN AGAIN WHEN HE IS OLD? THE OLDER WE GET THE HARDER IT GETS TO GRASP ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE GOT DEEP RELIGIOUS ROOTS LIKE (NICODEMUS) “HOW CAN THIS BE?” BUT JESUS INSISTS V3 AND THEN REAFFIRMS (5-8) WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.
SOME PEOPLE CONSIDER IT TO BE SOME NEW CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL - CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.
IN 1976 A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN POLITICIANS FROM THE SMALL TOWN OF PLAINS, GEORGIA DECIDED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. HIS NAME WAS JIMMY CARTER, AND ALTHOUGH HE HAD SERVED AS THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA, NO ONE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY KNEW VERY MUCH ABOUT HIM. DURING THAT CAMPAIGN HE WAS ASKED ABOUT HIS FAITH AND RESPONDED BY SAYING THAT HE WAS A ‘BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN.” MOST OF THE REPORTERS WHO WERE FOLLOWING CARTER HAD NEVER HEARD THE TERM BEFORE. THEY HAD ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT IT MEANT TO BE “BORN AGAIN, OR WHY CARTER WOULD USE THAT PHRASE TO DESCRIBE HIS FAITH. WELL, JIMMY CARTER MAY HAVE BEEN THE FIRST POLITICIAN TO USE THAT PHRASE BUT IT DIDN’T ORIGINATE WITH HIM.
THE REALITY OF THE NEW BIRTH WAS GERMINATED NOT IN THE MIND OF SOME 20th CENTURY EVANGELICAL BUT IS AS OLD AS CHRISTIANITY ITSELF AND A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF ITS TEACHING FROM THE 1ST CENTURY AD, FROM THE LIPS OF JESUS HIMSELF, WHO SAYS WITHOUT THE NEW BIRTH THERE IS NO ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD (3) .
B) WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN UNPACKED CONT.
IN FACT THE IDEA OF NEW BIRTH WAS SPOKEN OF EVEN EARLIER THAN THE 1ST CENTURY JESUS MAKES REFERENCE TO IT UNPACKING THE OLD TESTAMEMNT. (V5) UNLESS YOU ARE BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT YOU CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
JESUS IS REFERRING TO SPIRITUAL BIRTH WHICH CLEANSES FROM SIN AND BRINGS SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION AND RENEWAL SOME PEOPLE SAY WATER REFERS TO OUR (PHYSICAL BIRTH ) OTHERS SAY IT REFERS TO OUR BAPTISM. BUT WHAT JESUS IS ACTUALLY SAYING IS CONNECTED TO A 6TH CENTURY PROPHET CALLED EZEKIEL WHO PROPHESISED TO THE CAPTIVES IN BABYLON (EZK 36:25-27) READ.
GOD PROMISES HERE TO SPRINKLE CLEAN WATER (OUTWARD CEREMONIAL CLEANSING (NUM 19:13), BUT ALSO INWARD SPIRITUAL CLEANSING (JHN3:5) ON PEOPLE CLEANSING THEM , TO GIVE THEM A A NEW HEART, AND TO PLACE HIS SPIRIT IN THEM.
THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BORN AGAIN AND ITS A WORK FROM ABOVE AND JESUS SAYS DO NOT BE SURPRISED BY WHAT HE SAYS. YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN....
THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES AN INDIVIDUAL CAN ENTER INTO - IT WILL HAVE THE PROFOUNDEST IMPACT AND INFLUENCE ON THE REST OF YOUR LIFE AND INTO ETERNTITY AND BEYOND!
THE REALITY OF BEING BORN FROM ABOVE, OF BEING FORGIVEN , THE WEIGHT OF SIN IS LIFTED, TAKEN AWAY, A PEACE THAT SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING IS YOURS, A JOY THAT KNOWS NO LIMITS, GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLS YOUR LIFE, YOUR EYES ARE OPENED THE WORD OF GOD IT COMES ALIVE, YOU’RE ASSURED THAT YOU BELONG AND ARE LOVED BY FATHER GOD. THIS HAS TO BE THE GREATEST INFLUENCE UPON YOUR LIFE OF ALL TIME, FROM NOW ON IN, YOUR BORN AGAIN!
NOT ONLY HAS IT BEEN A LIFE CHANGING MOMENT FOR YOU, WHICH CHANGES THE COURSE OF YOUR WHOLE LIFE, BUT IT BECOMES A DEFINING MOMENT IN HEAVEN AS THE ANGELS REJOICE OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS IN HEAVEN , YOUR NAME IS THEN WRITTEN IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE (BIRTH CERTIFICATE) BUT NOT ONLY THAT ITS A DEFINING MOMENT IN THE HEART OF GOD AS HE BECOMES YOUR FATHER AND WE BECOME THE CHILDREN OF GOD (JHN1:12) ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY FOR EVER AND EVER AMEN.
FRIENDS DO NOT BE SURPRISED BY WHAT JESUS SAYS, “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!”
