I think we underestimate the cross sometimes. Most of the time. It was literally the biggest event in the history of history. And it changed EVERYTHING. Look at Revelation 21:5, "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." Now think about that for a minute. "Behold, I make all things new." Such an important idea. And there's actually quite a bit there. So let's unravel some of it. First things first: Behold. You have to SEE it. Because what you see is what you be. What you magnify is what manifests. What you behold is what you become. So if we set our affection on things on the earth we can easily get buried with the memory of the old. And I say "the memory" because Jesus said, "It is finished." He's not GOING to make everything new. He done did it. He MADE everything new. And, yes, I understand the idea of progression. All things are new. All things are becoming new. All things will become new. I get that. But it's the same idea as in 2 Corinthians 3:18, "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." We see the glory, and we're changed into that same image FROM glory TO glory. It starts with glory. It starts with complete. It starts with finished. (Jesus is the start AND the finish, right?) And the next thing I think it's vitally important to understand about Revelation 21:5 is that He made all things new. He didn't make all new thinigs. He didn't give up on you and start over. He took you from where you were--trapped in the bondage of sin and death--and He brought you to where He is--seated on the right hand of the Father. And He didn't just make YOU new, He made ALL things new. All of creation. The Messianic rebirth of the WORLD. And thats why, "...all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are" (Romans 8:19 NLT). The KJV says, "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." The manifestation. When we stop trying to be someone we're not and embrace who we really are. Who we really are in Christ. Who Christ is in us. When we stop trying to BECOME new and just start to BE new. When we start to walk in newness of life. When we shake off the graveclothes of the old (dead) man, and stop dragging his corpse around. When we stop looking at the things on the earth but set our affectoin on things above. That's when we see clearly. That's when we stop trying to overcome everything in sight and we see that HE overcame the world (for us and as us) and there is nothing left to overcome! That's when this life becomes new and improved. Abundant. And I've said it before and I'll say it again: The only thing that makes abundant life abundant... is love. This new life--HIS abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life--is a life of love! Being loved by God and loving each other with that same love!

Jesus is risen from the dead. He is the risen Lord. And since His death was our death, His Resurrection Life is OUR life! We don't try to live Jesus' life--nobody can live His life except Him--but we EXPERIENCE His life as He live it in us, and through us, and as us. And I think that's the key to rest. I'm not trying to act like Jesus. At best, all that will ever be is an act. I'm simply presenting my body as a living sacrifice and letting Him live His own life in my body. And did you catch that? The sacrifice God wants from us is not death. It's LIFE. We present our bodies as a LIVING sacrifice. We let Jesus LIVE through us even as we LIVE through Him! It's all about love. Which means it's all about life. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. That's why Jesus died--so He could rise again. He laid His life down so He could pick it back up. He gave His life for us, and He gave His life TO us. So we could partake of the Divine Nature. So we could receive and release the gift of God, which is eternal life, which is knowing the Father in the context of being His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. That's the ultimate truth of the universe that the Holy Spirit--our love receptor, the Spirit of truth--leads and guides us into: The ultimate truth that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. That as He is, so are we in this world. We don't have to try to act like Him, or be like Him, because we are already like Him! We were created in His image. But before the cross we didn't know what that image was. So we asked for an external Law and tried to live up to that perfect standard. But we couldn't. Not by might, nor by power. As hard as we tried there was always one thing we lacked. Because we were trying to earn something that can't be earned. We were trying to earn something that is freely given, and we were robbing ourselves from experiencing and enjoying that glorious gift! Then Jesus came. To show us the Father. Not an angry, distant taskmaster of a God, but the FATHER. He came that we might have LIFE, and have it more abundantly. And what makes life abundant? LOVE. But don't get it mixed up: Jesus didn't come so God could love us. God already loved us. Always has and always will. Jesus came so that we might KNOW and BELIEVE that God loves us! And He did that by dying--so that sin and death might die--and rising again--so that we might walk in newness of life. He did that by filling us (to overflowing) with His Spirit. He did that by defeating the lie... by showing us the truth! Jesus said the greatest love a man can have is to lay down his life for his friends. And then He went to the cross and did that very thing. He proved His love for us in that when we were yet sinners He died for us. And then He rose again. He drew us into Himself and died. So that we could die, and the old could pass away. And then He rose again so that we could live--truly live a life of love--and the new could come forth!

If we died with Jesus--if His death was our death--then we also rose with Jesus. His life is now our life. It's not something we try to do. I think that's where we get lost so easily. Life isn't about trying to change, or trying to be someone you're not. Life is about living. And we know that to live is to love. To love is to live. So what it means to let God LIVE in us is to let LOVE live in us. To let love fill us to overflowing--through the Holy Spirit, our love receptor--so that it flows out of us like a river of living water. And that's why Jesus came, right? "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). Abundant life. And what makes life abundant? Love! Look at John 10:10 in the NLT, "The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life." A rich and satisfying life. I believe so many people are so unsatisfied because they spent their three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) trying to "fit in." Trying to do what society told them they were "supposed to do." That doesn't leave us rich or satisfied. It's leaves us poor and unsatisfied. Poor, because we gave it all we got but we found that there was always "one thing we lacked." And unsatisfied because no matter how hard we tried to grab that carrot, the stick kept moving it just out of reach. Guys... that's death. That's the spiritual death that Adam experienced on the day that he ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Always trying. Always working. Trying to earn our bread by the sweat of our brow. Working and laboring to earn something that can't be earned. Trying to get enough knowledge about good and evil to stop doing evil and do good. But Jesus didn't come to deal between good and evil. He came to curse the fig tree--because it couldn't produce any fruit--and bring us to the true paradise of God, New Jerusalem, where there are not two trees, but only one: The Tree of Life. He didn't come to make "evil" people "good." He came to make dead people alive. By dying, both for us and as us, and rising again, both for us and as us. By feeding us from the Tree of Life that HE is. And you know what the fruit of the Tree of Life is, right? It's the fruit of the Spirit. It's love. Love is what brought us out of death and into life. Love is literally the difference between life and death. If you don't love your brother, you abide in death. But if you know and believe the love of God--know and believe that you ARE loved--then you know that you have been raised from the dead. You know that you ARE loved, and that means you CAN love. You can obey the New Commandment, which is to love one another as Jesus loves you. You can receive it and release it. You can experience--and enjoy--the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of Jesus (which is the gift of God) by letting Jesus live it in you, and through you, and as you!

Jesus. He died, we died. And as amazing as that is... that He would draw us into Himself and lay down His life both for us and as us to free us from the bondage of sin and death... thank God that's not the whole story. Because He didn't just die. He rose again. He laid His life down so He could take it back up again. He gave us the second death so that we might be born from above and experience the gift of God that is the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of knowing the Father through the context of Sonship. Knowing that Daddy loves us and would rather die than be without us. Knowing that we are loved... which is what empowers us to love! That's the New Commandment, right? Love one another as Jesus loves us. And the reason we can obey that commandment is because of the Holy Spirit. Our love receptor. Because God poured His Spirit out on all flesh. Because He poured Himself into us so that He could overflow out of us. So that we could live as He lives in us, and through us, and as us. That's the key to the resurrection. It's not just Jesus who rose again. It's all of us. He drew us into Himself when He was raised up from the earth on the cross. So, again, when He died we died. And then when He rose again WE rose again. He is risen. WE are risen. As He IS, so are we in this world. Not as He was. Not us trying to act the way Jesus acted. But as He IS. Which, of course, begs the question: How is He? And we find that in the verse we started this Rant series with, "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God" (Colossians 3:1). He is seated (in a posture of rest, because the work is finished) on the right hand of God. The power seat. And that's where WE are. Because when He rose, we rose. So in order to "seek those things which are above" we don't have to look up. We need just look WITHIN. Hebrews 2:8 tells us that, "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see no yet all things put under him." Now this is important. All things are under HIS feet. Right? And His feet are OUR feet. So all things are under OUR feet. We have been made kings and priests to rule and reign on the earth. The problem is that we don't yet SEE all things put under Him. But in the next verse (Hebrews 2:9) we get the solution to the problem. "But we see Jesus..." What are "those things which are above" that we are supposed to seek? In a Word... Jesus. And, again, where do we seek Him? Above us? As if we're lowly worms way down here and He's way up there? No. We seek Him within. That's where He lives. In Him we live and move and have our being. In us He lives and moves and has His being. We see Jesus within us. Because there's no separation between us. As He is, so are we in this world. So even when it doesn't feel like it, even when it doesn't look like it, in order to see everything under His (OUR) feet... all we have to do is see HIM. See Him as He is. So we might BE Him as He is. Not by trying. Not by works and labor. Not by might or power. But by His Spirit. The Spirit of the Living God. The Spirit of the Risen Lord. The Spirit that lives within us and fills us to overflowing with His love. So we can love others with the same love we are loved with. So we can live the ascended, abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life by letting Jesus live it in us, and through us, and as us!

Jesus died... and then three days later He rose again. Both of those truths are ultimately important. And I'm not going to sit here and say I completely understand every bit of it. But I do understand this: When He died, I died. And when He rose again, I rose again. The old passed away. The new came forth. It's a whole new ballgame where we have been equipped and empowered to walk in newness of life. To live Jesus' abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life by letting Him live it in me, and through me, and as me. To partake of His Divine Nature through the knowledge of Him. And I'm not talking about head knowledge either. I'm not talking about knowing ABOUT Him. I'm talking about heart knowledge. Relationship. KNOWING Him. I'm talking about living in this flesh through the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. Gave Himself TO me. Laid His life down for me and then took it back up. Gave me everything He had--Himself--so that I could have something. Something to enjoy. To share. To give. It's like this: Jesus died (in part) so that we could inherit everything the Father had for the Son--which is all things--and then He rose again to make sure that we got what was coming to us. I've heard it said that mercy is us not getting what we deserved and grace is us getting what we didn't deserve. And I can see that. But I can also see a God who never wanted to punish us in the first place. A God who warned us not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil because He didn't want us to die. A God who would rather die than be without us. A God who wanted us to have His life so badly that He literally gave it to us. He drew us into Himself and died so that the old COULD pass away. So that DEATH could die. He died so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin and death. He died to take away our sin and conquer death. And then He rose again. So that we could live. So that, instead of just pushing a cosmic reset button and then leaving us to our own devices... we could experience HIS life. Nobody can live Jesus' life except Jesus. I can't do it. Even Moses, the mediator of the Old Covenant, couldn't get into the Promised Land on his own merit. Because it is, "...Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6). We couldn't do it. So He did it for us (and as us). He came down to where we were and brought us up to where He is. The consuming fire burned everything else away. Everything except itself. Everything except love. The inner man, the hidden man of the heart, was buried beneath all of the surface stuff. So Jesus got rid of all of the surface stuff. He brought us back to the simplicity of Christ by showing us who God really is. Showing us who WE really are. God is our loving heavenly Father. We are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. A dead man is a man who doesn't love, because He doesn't know He is loved. He can't give what He doesn't have. And Jesus didn't come to make "evil" people "good." He came to make dead people alive. He came to fill us with His Spirit so that we might receive (and release) His love. Live loved, and live LOVE. That's what it means to be alive. That's what make abundant life abundant. That's what happened when Jesus rose from the dead. WE rose from the dead. To a life of love. A life where God's love fills us to overflowing and comes out of us (naturally) and gets all over everybody else that we come into contact with!

It's hard to understand (much less explain) how important the cross was. The unimaginable gift of God--life Himself--dying for us... laying His life down FOR US. That, in and of itself, is a greater gift than we could ever, or had ever, expected. And that was only the first part of the plan. Jesus said, "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again" (John 10:17). As vitally important as it was for Him to lay His life down... He did it so that He could take it back up. Dying for us and as us was the greatest show of love that a man could have. But it wasn't the whole plan. Becuase Jesus didn't just give His life FOR us... He gave His life TO us. He died so that we might die, and then He rose again so that we might rise again! So that we might experience His life as we partake of the Divine Nature! Look at 1 Corinthians 15:20, "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." He is the risen Lord. And that's even more powerful when we understand that as He is, so are we in this world. He died--we died. He rose again--we rose again. Jesus is the truth about God... and the truth about us. Because God lives in us! So now we no longer have to struggle to get by. We no longer have to try to earn our bread by the sweat of our brow. Jesus sweated great drops of blood. His blood reversed the curse. His death brought forth life! But here's where it gets tricky. Because something being available to us doesn't mean we're experiencing it. You can be given a gift... but until you receive it you can't do anything with it. Colossians 3:1 says it like this, "If we then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." See... Jesus stands at the door (of our hearts) and knocks. But He doesn't force His way in. He made the Way of Grace. It's up to us to respond with the Walk of Faith. Notice what 1 Timothy 6:12 says, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." Fighting the good fight of FAITH isn't about "fighting" at all. It's about believing. It's about laying hold of eternal life. Receiving the gift we've been given. Apprehending what we've been apprehended of. It's not about US rising. It's not about getting knowledge of good and evil so that we can do good and stop doing evil. It's not about works and labor. It's about Jesus. HE rose again. HE gave us the measure of faith--by giving us something (love), someone (Himself) to believe in. He gave us the gift. And the gift is His life. His Spirit. The love receptor. That Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth. The truth that Daddy loves us and has given all things into our hands. The truth that because HE rose, WE rose! Already. It's not something we need to do. It's something that is finished. And now we CAN seek those things which are above, because WE are above. All things are under our feet. HE is seated at the right hand of God... and as He is, so are we in this world. Dying freed us from the bondage of sin and death. Rising again equipped and empowered us to live the abundant, eternal, everlasting, Resurrection Life of God by letting Jesus live it in us, and through us, and as us!

The living God is the loving God. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. So when we say God is not concerned with the tree of knowledge of good and evil (the tree of death) but is concerned with the Tree of Life... what we mean is that God (who IS love) is concerned only WITH love! The Tree of Life produces the fruit of the Spirit, right? And the fruit of the Spirit is love. So, as always, what are we talking about...? LOVE. It's all about love. And here's the coolest part: The living God... lives in us! He is the vine and we are the branches. So HE produces the fruit of the Spirit (love) and we bear it. We carry it to those who need it. And, spoiler alert, "those who need it" is everybody! We receive it and release it. We receive it BY releasing it. We let God love us--through the Holy Spirit, our love receptor--and then we love each other with that same love. That's HOW He lives through us. Because, again, to live is to love and to love is to live. So we understand Acts 17:28, "For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring," to mean in Him we love. In us HE loves. He loves us. And He loves those we come into contact with through us, and as us. We bear the fruit, feeding those who are hungry. Giving what we've got. Sharing the gift we've been given, and in that way making it even more real. We get so caught up with so much insignicant "stuff." When we ought to realize that Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end. It starts with Him and ends with Him. It starts with LOVE and it ends with LOVE. You know the old saying, "Let prayer be first choice not last chance." God doesn't want to just be a part of your life. He wants to BE your life, because He IS life. LOVE is life. It's literally the difference between life and death. If you don't love, you're abiding in death. You're not experiencing life. You're not truly living. Like Adam--who lived like 900 years after the day he ate of the tree of death and died--you can wander around as the walking dead, trying to be good enough. Trying to grab the carrot even though the stick is always moving. That's not abundant life. Love is what makes life abundant. Love is what makes LIVING truly possible. Being loved and loving one another. That's why we're here. That's why God created us. That's our EPIC (Eternal Purpose In Christ) Destiny. That's why God lives, and that's how God lives. He lives for us. In us. Through us. As us. He created us so He could express Himself. And since He is love... He created us to express His love. He's not the God of the dead. He's the God of the living. The God of the loving. He has filled us to overflowing with His love. With Himself. And when we stop trying and start resting, that's when we fill ourselves with the fulness of God and that's when He (love) overflows out of us... naturally. Not fake it 'til you make it. But just living a life of love. Every day in every way. As He lives in you!

I know I've been stuck on this idea for a while now, but I can't understand our fixation with the "afterlife." It's like we waste the time we've got in order to hopefully assure our place in heaven someday when we die. Guys: Heaven isn't just a place you to to when you die. Heaven is where you went when Jesus died both for you and as you! He's not the God of the dead, and that's why He made us all alive in Him. Alive TO Him. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. So being alive--truly alive, not the walking dead "life" experience that Adam had after eating from the tree of death and then dying--means being loved and loving one another with that same love! God is the God of the living. God is love. The difference between life and death... is love! 1 John 3:14 says it like this, "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." We were dead in our trespasses and sins before the cross. When God's love for us--His LIFE--seemed too good to be true. We tried to earn it, but since it's a gift it can't be earned. There was always "one thing we lacked." Always another hoop to jump through. Another mountain to climb. It wasn't until Jesus came and brought every mountain low and every valley high... until Jesus came and told us to tell the mountain of the Law to go jump in a lake (or in the sea, but you get my point)... that we were able to stop trying to earn His love. He poured His Spirit out on all flesh. He didn't come to make "evil" people "good" but He came to make dead people alive. Because He's the God of the living. Because He IS life. That's why Jesus didn't just give His life FOR us... He gave His life TO us. So that we could have it. Everlasting, eternal, abundant, Resurrection Life. Right here and now. Not something in our future IF we die. But something we can enjoy right now! Remember 1 Corinthians 15:51 (NLT), "But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!" And how do we BE transformed? By the renewing of our mind. And how is our mind renewed? Where does our repentance (or mind change) come from? It comes from Jesus giving us HIS mind! We were freed from the bondage of sin (unbelief) when Jesus gave us something (love... Himself) to believe in. We passed out of death and into life when the Holy Spirit--our love receptor--took us by the hand and began to lead and guide us into all truth. The truth (that is Jesus) that the Father loves us and has given all things into our hands. The truth that we ARE loved empowers us TO love. And when we know and believe that we are loved... when we receive and release the love of the Father... that's when we truly live. That's when we truly experience the gift we've been given. That's when the living God lives... in, and through, and as us! It's not about getting somewhere someday IF we die. It's about being where we're at right now! The days of heaven ON earth. Living and loving right here and now!

God is a living God... because He lives in us! He is a loving God... because He loves through us! In Him we live, and move, and have our being. In us He lives, and moves, and has His being! I always find it funny when people say, "God works in mysterious ways." Because I believe God works through people. And I'm not saying He can't miraculously heal somebody, or different things like that. I try not to ever put any limits on God. But I'm saying He seems to miraculously heal people by the laying on of hands. Or by the effective prayer of a righteous man, which availeth much. I'm saying the biggest miracle God could do... is you. And the only sensible thing for you to do, is receive it and release it. Live in Him by letting Him live in you. And here's the thing about life: It's 24/7/365. Every second of every minute of every hour of every day. Living never stops. Not even with physical death. I mean, what part of "everlasting" don't we understand? God IS the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But He's not the God of the dead. So that means even though Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob physically died, they are still alive! In Him! And that means that we were crucified with Christ yet we live! The old man died and passed away. And the New Man sprang forth to walk in newness of life. Not Adam life--the life of the living dead--but Resurrection Life. Jesus life. An abundant life of love. What else but love would make life abundant? But here's my point for today: Life never stops. There aren't times when God is present, and then other times when He's absent. There's a line in a movie that drives me crazy. One guy says, "Go with God." And the other guy says, "God's gonna sit this one out." NO!!!! God doesn't sit anything out. He promised to never leave us nor forsake us. He's always present. And, yes, I understand that sometimes we hide from His presence, just like Adam and Eve did when they thought God was mad at them. I understand that sometimes we close ourselves off to the reality that is God living in us. But that doesn't mean He STOPS living in us. How could the God who literally is life ever stop living in us? Let me say it this way: According to Revelation 21:3, "I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: “Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They’re his people, he’s their God." Get it? On the cross God moved into the neighborhood. Into YOU. And He's never moving out. And, as a preacher once said, "Property value just went up!" Because the old passed away. And the new came forth. Because DEATH passed away and LIFE came forth! Abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life! You know, the gift of God. Knowing the living God and One whom He sent. Knowing God as your Father and knowing yourself as His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased! That's eternal life. That life-long relationship of love between Father and Son!

A living God is a loving God. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. You can't have one without the other. They are the same thing. And God is not the God of the dead. But He IS the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Which means even though those great men of God physically died... they must be still alive! Which means we are probably thinking about life and death a little bit too literally. Let me say it like this: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). In my opinion, we've all already had two deaths. We all died once when Adam ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And then we all died again on the cross when Jesus died. And here's the amazing part: Nevertheless I live! Because Christ lives in me! Death wasn't the end of the story for Jesus. Because God IS life. Three days was the best death could do. A long weekend. Jesus took death's best shot and stood victorious. The thing humanity has always been most afraid of... was proved powerless. 1 Corinthians 15:26 says, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." But look at it in the Young's Literal Translation, "the last enemy is done away--death." Did you catch that? When Jesus won the war to end all wars on the cross He defeated EVERY enemy. Even the one between our ears. "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by your wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled" (Colossians 1:21). We thought WE were God's enemies. And so when He came down in the very midst of us... we killed Him. But what we meant for evil, He meant for good. He was reconciling us to Himself. He gave Himself for us when we were yet sinners. When we didn't believe that God loved us, or even COULD love us, because of our sordid history of wicked works... He gave Himself for us. And He gave Himself to us. He gave His LIFE to us. He cleansed us (and saved us) from our sins and transformed us from sinners to saints. He didn't come to make "evil" people "good." Good and evil were on the same tree. He came to make dead people alive. We died in Adam. And only through the cross--the second death--could we receive a new birth. Only through the second death could we receive abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life! We were crucified with Christ. Life died so that death might die. The last enemy IS done away. It IS finished. And now we can walk in newness of LIFE. Now we can experience the life that God always wanted us to have. We can stop trying to scrap by by the skin of our teeth. We can stop "living" with the attitude of "life sucks then you die." And we can start to enjoy the gift we've been given. We can start to receive and release the love of God. The gift of eternal life that is knowing the living God and the One whom He sent. Knowing God as Father, and knowing yourself as His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. The living God is concerned primarily with LIFE. For ALL of humanity. ALL of His creation. He died to give life to us. True life. A life of living and loving. What else could make abundant life abundant? It's a life filled to overflowing with love. We have been filled with the Holy Spirit--our love receptor--and now we can know and believe the love of Christ. Know, and believe, and SHARE the love of Christ!