All I Want For Christmas is Joy

We are at Dell celebrating Christmas here at Cross-Faction Church. We're looking at joy coming into this world and how it has affected us. So, open with us to Romans chapter 5 as we consider that together.

Well, good morning and Merry Christmas! I don't wear a suit often, but when I do, it's something muted. Merry, Merry Christmas! Would you stand with me, please? I was just thinking while my mom was praying. She was saying that she can't imagine offering one of her sons. I know there were some times in my past where she would have readily done so.

Hey, would you take out your Bible? If you don't have one this morning, you can raise your hand, and one of our ushers will bring you one. We're going to open our Bibles to the book of Romans in the New Testament. That's near the end of your Bible. The last third of your Bible is the New Testament, which begins with Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, then Acts, and Romans. Romans chapter 5 is the passage that we've been looking at over the last several weeks leading up to the holiday this week.

So, Romans chapter 5, verse 1. Paul there says, "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."

Not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance character, and character hope. Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than, having now been justified by His faith, we shall be saved from...

Wrath through Him! For if, when we were His enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Father, as we once again open the Scriptures, we pray that You would open our ears and our hearts to receive from You. We who trust in You believe that this passage of Scripture, and all passages of Scripture, are given by inspiration, God-breathed. You gave these to us so that we would know who You are, that we would know Your will, Your plan, and Your desire.

So, God, I pray that You would reveal Yourself to us through the pages of Scripture this morning. Continue the work of transformation in our lives, transforming us by the renewing of our minds, that we would be able to show forth what is Your good and perfect will in this world. I pray, God, that as we approach Christmas in just a couple of days, You would remind us today of the reasons that we have to rejoice in You, for we ask it in Jesus' name. And all those that are in agreement said, "Amen."

You may be seated.

Well, Christmas is just two days away. For the last four weeks, as we have been approaching this holiday, we have been taking time to go through the Scriptures and consider some of the important things that the Bible has to say about this time of year. We have been talking about the needs that every single one of us has that must necessarily be met if we are to experience what the Bible calls, and what Jesus calls, the abundant life.

In John chapter 10, Jesus said, "I have come that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly." I am convinced, as we go through the Scriptures together, that the Scriptures reveal these needs that must be met if we are to experience fully that abundant life. Now, I don't know anybody who does not deeply desire to have an abundant life. Of course, there are different ways that we might define or describe what that abundant life is; different people have different expectations of what it would be.

Most people are seeking an abundant life, however they would describe it. In our culture, for the better part of the last century, we have been led to believe that the way to experience satisfaction and enjoy the abundant life is to satisfy one's practical material needs. The idea is that if we can just deal with all of these practical material needs that every single human being has, then we will have the abundant life and experience satisfaction.

Over the last two and a half generations, we have been privileged to have most of those material needs met. Of course, there are areas where there are gaps, but for the most part, living in this part of the world at this time in history, we enjoy many of those needs being taken care of. Yet, we find that even with virtually all of the material practical needs being met, there are still people in our nation who are not experiencing that abundant life. Many are still not satisfied.

You would think that if we just dealt with all those needs, people would be satisfied, joyful, and abundant. However, we realize that this has not been our experience. In fact, not only are many people in our culture unsatisfied, but we are also a society experiencing anxiety, depression, and distress at an alarming rate. I believe this is due in large part to the fact that while important material needs can go a long way, they cannot fully satisfy our deepest needs and desires.

The reason for this is that we are more than just material beings. We are living at a time when many people are putting forth the theory that we are just material, that there is nothing more to us than material. They argue that even our consciousness is derived from chemical interactions of material within our bodies. These strict materialists in our culture promote this theory, but it is important to recognize that there is more to our existence than just the material.

It doesn't seem to measure up to what we experience or how we actually live our lives. The biblical worldview and the understanding that most people have is that we are more than just material beings. Because we are more than just material beings, we have more than just material needs that must be met if we are to experience our fullest potential and the abundant life.

There are transcendent needs. The one I have been noting as we go through this series is Abraham Maslow, who is recognized as one of the chief behavioral psychologists. He wrote on human motivation and the needs we have, deriving what is called Maslow's hierarchy of needs back in the 1940s. At that time, many people in our nation and throughout the world did not have their practical needs met. However, over the last 75 years, we have seen in the West that we have largely met those needs, yet people are still lacking.

Maslow came to discover, and we all recognize, that there are needs of the soul, or what we might even refer to as spiritual needs, that every human being has. The passage we have been returning to every single week is Romans chapter 5. Paul, the author of this passage, talks about those transcendent spiritual needs. He brings them very clearly into view and makes it clear that these practical needs are only fulfilled in Christ. This is a recurring theme throughout much of Paul's writing—the concept of being in Christ and that what we truly need and value is found in Him.

Therefore, point number one on your outline, which we have seen over the last several weeks, is that the abundant life is impossible without grace from God, bringing peace with God, resulting in hope in God, all on the basis of the love of God. I recognize there's a lot there; it's a bit longer than most of my points generally are, but this encapsulates everything we have been looking at over the last four weeks. We will keep it up there so you can jot these things down if you're taking notes. The abundant life, which every single one of us ultimately desires, is what Jesus proposed when He said He came to give us that abundant life. It is impossible without grace from God, bringing peace with God, resulting in...

Hope in God is based on the love of God. I am convinced that all of these components—love, grace, peace, and hope—are essentially important if we are going to have the abundant life. If you desire the abundant life, and I believe everybody does, then you will not see the fulfillment of that desire without these things.

There are people who think that the abundant life is found in fame. This is a cultural mindset here in the United States. Some believe that the abundant life is found in pleasure, power, prestige, or wealth. Others think that it is found in the perfect spouse, the perfect house, or perfect children, which is never going to happen. We often think that if we just have these things, then we will have the abundant life and be satisfied. Yet, there are people striving for these things in our culture, and we have witnessed that some seem to attain them. However, those who have reached that level of success often find that it does not satisfy.

It may provide temporary fulfillment, but it always leaves us looking for more, which indicates that there is something more to be found. I truly believe that is the case. However, there is a danger in acknowledging this. I believe there is a force in this world that constantly feeds the narrative that if I just get "fill in the blank," then I will be happy. Once you obtain that thing, the thought shifts to, "Well, if I just get that, then I will be happy," because the thing you thought would make you happy did not.

Biblically speaking, when you start to open the pages of Scripture, you discover that this force at work in the world is referred to as Satan or the devil, the Prince of the power of the air. He is constantly feeding us this concept, appealing to our flesh. We are in a constant battle with our own nature, our fallen nature, and the way that the world influences us.

The enemy seeks to entice us with the things of this world, telling us that if we just had this, then we would be happy. Yet, when we obtain those things, we often find that we are not satisfied. This is why some of our greatest hit songs express sentiments like "I can't get no satisfaction" or "I still haven't found what I'm looking for." We connect with the lyrics of these songs because they resonate with an understanding in our souls that we have not been able to attain true fulfillment.

Some of the people we look up to in our culture seem to have reached the pinnacles of what we esteem as success. However, they often experience a significant drop on the other side of that pinnacle. I have a good friend, Joey Barron, who is a pastor but was a professional surfer early in his life. He worked tirelessly to reach the top of the surfing world and ultimately achieved that in the early 1980s. Joey won what is called the Pipeline Masters, which is a significant accomplishment in surfing.

I remember helping him move from Vista to Orange County. While packing up the truck, he mentioned that we needed to drive over to his mom's house to pick up some more stuff. When we arrived at his mom's house, we went into the spare bedroom, and he started pulling things out from underneath the bed. Out came a dusty trophy that read "Pipeline Masters Champion 1984." He shared the story of how hard he had worked to win that award. However, within 20 minutes of receiving it, a big storm rolled in on the beach in Hawaii, and everyone ran for cover. Joey was left sitting out there alone in the rain, and in that moment, he realized that this was all there was.

This realization led him into a deep slump, and he even struggled with suicidal thoughts for a time. Ultimately, God used that experience to bring him to a place of understanding that true fulfillment is not found in worldly achievements but only in Christ, as Paul speaks of in the book of Romans. Joey came to faith and is now a pastor, having learned that these worldly things do not bring lasting joy.

Grace, peace, and hope are, I believe, part of the spiritual hierarchy of needs that every single human being has, and they can only be found in Christ. This is why the advent of Christ, which we celebrate in a couple of days during Christmas, is so significant. The advent of Christ is the arrival of that which we deeply need and ultimately desire. His coming into the world fulfills our greatest longings.

The world is that the bringing of these things that we desperately seek: love, grace, peace, and hope. When one receives the gift of God's love and His grace, bringing peace with God and hope in God, they begin to experience the fifth and final piece of this hierarchy of spiritual needs, which Paul speaks of here in this passage in Romans chapter 5.

Look again with me at verse 1. He says, "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." Not only that, but we also rejoice, or glory—same word—we rejoice in tribulation, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance character, and character hope.

Because of God's love, Jesus graciously came into this world to satisfy justice. He satisfies the just requirement of God's law through His death on the cross. He satisfies justice to make it possible for us to be justified. Justified means justice is satisfied, so His grace satisfies justice, giving us peace. We, who were at enmity and in conflict with God, going all the way back to the third chapter of the first book of the Bible, Genesis chapter 3, are in conflict with God until Christ, who is our peace, comes. He makes it possible for us to have peace with God. He deals with the warfare, the conflict, the enmity, and so we can have peace with God, making it possible for us to have hope that is eternal hope in God.

As a result of God's love and grace, we have great joy and rejoicing. Paul speaks about it when he says that we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God in Romans chapter 5, verse 2. The love and grace of God coming into our life makes it possible for us to have great joy and rejoicing. Now, we live in a nation that has enshrined in its founding documents the pursuit of...

Happiness is mentioned in the very first founding document of our nation, the Declaration of Independence, dated July 4th, 1776. In the preamble, our founding fathers wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

For the last two hundred and forty-two years, we have been endeavoring on this grand experiment to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. We have attained a great deal in this pursuit. If you look at the last 242 years of history here in the United States and how our nation has impacted the rest of the world, you would be hard-pressed to prove that this 242-year experiment has not been an overall net positive for those of us who live here and, to a large extent, for many people around the world. There has been an overall increase in liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not just here but as an overflow throughout the world.

Where did that come from? It comes from the understanding that these truths derive not from the politics of a nation, nor from the words of a politician or a king. They derive from God, who created us and gives us these rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This has positively affected the world in significant ways.

Now, there may be people who will argue, and they absolutely will be political, saying that there are many negatives as well. Yes, that is true. However, if you balance out the net positives and negatives, you will find that it has positively affected us and the world in a very significant way.

At best, any happiness that you can secure as a result of the life and liberty lived in this nation is, at its best, temporary. It is fleeting and not enduring. Moreover, it is largely dependent upon good happenings. If you look at the etymology, that is, the word origin of...

The word "happiness" is connected in its etymology to "happenings" or "good fortune." We seem to think that happiness is derived from good fortune. If we have good fortune and good things happen, then we will be happy. This is why we have places like the "happiest place on earth." If you just go to the happiest place on earth, you will be happy—unless you have four kids and it's four o'clock in the afternoon. At that point, you will not be happy.

We think that happiness comes from good happenings and good fortune, depending upon those good happenings. Yet, Paul, in Romans chapter five, verse three, says, "We also rejoice in tribulation." There is cognitive dissonance in that statement. What is cognitive dissonance? It is when you are seeing, reading, or hearing something that does not align with your experience of the world.

So, we read, "We rejoice in tribulations," and there is cognitive dissonance. I am always challenged by those words because, in my nature, it just doesn't align with the way that I've experienced life. I don't know anyone who feels, "Yeah, I rejoice! I got a flat tire, lost my job, or received a cancer diagnosis." It just doesn't work that way.

But Paul says we rejoice in tribulation, which tells us something about this joy he is speaking of. This rejoicing comes as a result of the love of God, bringing grace from God, peace with God, and hope in God. It tells us about this joy.

Point number three is that the joy of the abundant life is not circumstantial but increasing and enduring. It is not based solely on circumstances; it is not merely circumstantial. Instead, it is increasing and enduring. When you receive God's love, His grace, and peace, and hope, then, as Peter said in 1 Peter chapter one, verse eight, you rejoice with...

Joy inexpressible and full of glory, a joy that is exceeding and abundant. Jesus came into this world two thousand years ago so that, as He said in the Gospel of John, "my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full." Those are the words of Jesus: "I've come that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full."

However, we recognize that any sort of joy or happiness we experience in this life, which comes from our pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, is temporary. It might surprise you that I was listening to my favorite atheist this week, Sam Harris. I subscribe to his podcast and enjoy listening to him; he intrigues me. Just this week, he was interviewing a doctor named Peter Attia. I don't know who Peter Attia is, but it was a very interesting two-hour conversation. I listened to it at 1.75 speed, so I was taking it in at hyper speed.

About a quarter of the way into this two-hour conversation, Sam Harris, one of the most well-known atheists today, said this: "The narrow conception of happiness that most of us have by default is something that we are always trying to defend and shore up against all of the other things in life that are threatening to undermine it."

Take that in for a second. We have this narrow perception of what happiness and joy are, and there are so many things in this world trying to undermine that. He goes on to make the obvious point that it is not a safe play. It's not a safe play to seek after joy and happiness because there are so many things that threaten or destroy our experience of joy. To make that your pursuit—happiness and joy—is not a safe play; it is perpetually under threat. Any joy you can feel, by virtue of its having arisen based on some causes and conditions, is going to pass away.

In that portion of his podcast, Sam Harris mentions that he is seeking a durable source of joy. I am grateful that Sam Harris, the atheist, is seeking a durable source of joy because I am absolutely convinced it is only found in one place. Jesus did say that those...

Who seek will find, and if you knock, it will be opened unto you. I am hopeful that as he continues to pursue a durable source of joy, it will lead him only in one direction. However, I think he will have a really hard time with where it leads him. He is hoping, as he talks about quite frequently, to find it through meditation, but it is not going to come through meditation. True joy is only found in one place. He acknowledges that any joy you can find in this life is temporary.

Now, I don't want to falsely put forward the notion that if you trust in Jesus, every happening in your life is going to be happy. That's not true. There are some people who propose to open and teach this book, who have big platforms and big TV shows, that sometimes say that sort of stuff. However, that is not what the Bible says. It does not say that if you trust in Jesus, everything is going to be super great with happy happenings all the time. If that were true, there would not have been loads of Christians martyred for the last two thousand years. There is no cross of Christ in Christ dying naked there on Calvary's cross if everything about following Jesus is happy and fluffy all the time.

I am not at all putting forth the false notion that if you trust in Jesus, everything is going to be perfect. Life can be difficult and challenging. Just this last week, some people's lives became a little bit more challenging because the Dow Jones had a steep slide. If the worst thing you experienced is the Dow Jones losing 500 points, then you are blessed, because there are a lot more terrible things that could come into life. We see it happening all around the world. Just this morning, when I looked at the news, there was a tsunami in Indonesia from a volcano, and at least 200 people died instantly from this tsunami.

Terrible things do happen, but love, grace, and peace from God bring a joy that Paul and the other writers of Scripture described as increasing unto fullness for eternity. Three thousand years ago, the great king of Israel, David, wrote in Psalm 16, verse 11, "Lord, you will show me the path of life."

Your presence is fullness of joy, and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Three thousand years ago, David trusted that God was going to show him the way to come into God's presence. He believed that the path to God's presence would bring fullness of joy forever. That was his hope, his trust, and his belief that God would do that.

Then, two thousand years ago, a thousand years after David wrote that hope, Jesus spoke these words: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me." David believed that God was going to show him the path of life, and Jesus says, "I am the path. No one comes to the Father but by me." If you come by me, then you will come to the Father, and in His presence is fullness of joy, and at His right hand are pleasures forevermore.

I suggest to you that this may be one of the most challenging words of the Bible for modern American culture. The biggest stumbling block to the Christian faith for most people in our culture today, particularly those who are non-religious, is the concept of the exclusivity claims of Jesus. Sociologists refer to this group as the "nuns," indicating they have no religious affiliation. This is an increasing demographic in our culture today.

The biggest stumbling block for those with no religious affiliation is the exclusive nature of the claims Jesus made. He made these outlandish claims: "I am the only way; there is no other way." I had a great conversation last night with one of my family members on my wife's side during a big celebration at our house. There were a whole bunch of family members there, and I had an hour-long conversation with Uncle Pete. I love Uncle Pete. My family's over here, and I think you guys would love Uncle Pete too. He's 75 years old, a cool old lawyer, and very smart.

During our conversation, Pete made it very clear that he has a really hard time with the exclusive nature of the claims of Jesus, which I totally understand. But if it is true that there is only one way to joy that is eternal and full, would it be wrong and narrow to...

Say that's the only way. If there was one cure for cancer, would it be really narrow-minded of me to say, "Well, this is the only cure for cancer," or would it be loving for me to extend that to people who do not yet have that? I suggest that it's the most loving thing to do to say, "This is the only way," which is what Jesus came and said.

David believed and hoped for the path of life that would lead into the presence of God and joy forever. Jesus said, "I am that way." When you trust in Christ, which is the nature of the gospel, you receive the gift of God's love. His love brings grace, resulting in peace with God, where there once was enmity, and hope in God for an eternal and expanding joy. The reality of expanding and eternal joy is that it is a joy that remains in spite of circumstances.

The Apostle James, the half-brother of Jesus, would write in James chapter one, verse two, another verse that we are stumbled by when he said, "Count it all joy when you fall into various trials." I just don't know anybody, apart from God's work of grace in their life, counting it joy when they fall into trials. But he says, "Count it all joy when you fall into trials." Why? Because he had a concept, an understanding of the grace and love of God bringing the peace of God and the hope of God. Therefore, he could count it all joy when he falls into trial.

It seems absurd, those kinds of words, but it leads into what Paul would write in Romans chapter eight, verse eighteen, when he would say, "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us." The only way that you can have joy in the midst of trial and the things that happen in this world, because of a broken world or the malevolence of broken people, is the anticipation of something beyond this life that is greater than this life.

So Paul would say, "I consider that the sufferings of this present world are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us." In another place, he writes in the New Testament in 2 Corinthians chapter four, "Therefore we do not lose heart." When we're going through terrible circumstances, he says we do not lose heart, even though our outward man is perishing. How many of you know your...

The outward man is perishing more and more all the time; it's kind of distressing. However, we do not lose heart. Even though the outward man is perishing, this is stated in 2 Corinthians 4:16: "Yet the inward man is being renewed day by day."

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we do not look at the things which are seen, we focus on the things which are not seen. The things which are seen are temporary, even the good things we may have in this life, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Some of you who have been here for a really long time will remember a gentleman, a good friend of mine, who went to be with the Lord a number of years ago. His name was Mike Callahan. Mike lived the last seven or eight years of his life with a brain tumor the size of a bar of soap. This verse was his favorite; he shared it with me many times: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

He was one of the most joyful people I ever knew, and yet he had terminal brain cancer. He knew that it would take his life; he just didn't know when. For at least the last seven years of his life, he served God passionately, looking forward to the glory that would be revealed in him. He had exceedingly great joy in the midst of a trial that most people would question, asking why he wasn't depressed or distressed. He understood that it was a light affliction, and it was working for him a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

This brings us finally to this: If you are in the book of Romans, turn to the left to the Gospel of Luke. Matthew, Mark, then Luke. Luke chapter 2 contains a familiar Christmas passage. We will pick it up at verse 8.

Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid.

And then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy. I bring you good news, the gospel. The original word there in the Greek for good tidings is 'euangelion'; it's where we get our concept of the evangel, which is the good news. I bring you good tidings of great joy, which will be to all people." Would you circle the word "all" there? It will be for all people.

For there is born to you this day in the City of David, which is Bethlehem, a Savior who is Christ the Lord. This will be the sign to you: you will find the babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger. Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men."

For behold, I bring to you good tidings, the gospel of great joy, which will be to all people. The stumbling block for many non-religious people in American culture today, or Western culture today, is the exclusivity claims of Jesus. But understand that Jesus came to bring great joy to all people.

I think it's fascinating that the announcement of the birth of the King of Kings, the one who would bring good news of great joy for all people, was made by angels to shepherds in a field—probably the lowest socio-economic group in ancient Israel. The shepherds in that area called Bethlehem were just seven miles outside of Jerusalem. They were likely the shepherds that oversaw the sheep that would be brought to the Temple in Jerusalem for sacrifice.

The angel comes to the lowliest socio-economic group and tells them, "I bring you good tidings of great joy for all people." I think it's at least instructive that he didn't go to royalty. Not that the gift is not for royalty; it is for them too. But he didn't go to the top of society as if to say that, well, if you really want this, you've got to work your way up to get to here, and then you might be able to have that. No, he came to the lowest and said, "I have come to bring you good tidings of great joy, which will be to all people." That was the message.

Christmas, the first Christmas, 2,000 years ago, brought good news of great joy for all people. Point number four on your outline is that the joy of God is available to all people in Christ. It might seem narrow to add those last two words, "in Christ," but it's essential because the joy of God is available to all people, yet it is only found in one place.

Though it is a stumbling block to many secularists in our culture today, that is the news of the gospel. Every single person, whether they believe in theological concepts or not, is looking for a durable source of joy. Even if their name is Sam Harris, they are searching for that joy. However, that joy is only found in Christ. This was the message of the angel to the shepherds 2,000 years ago, and it is the message that God would have us remember, rejoice in, and share.

Of all the things that we will share in two days at Christmas, as you gather with friends, neighbors, co-workers, and family members, I pray that you will share the good news of great joy that is for all people and is found in Christ. Amen.

Would you stand with me as we close in prayer? God, I thank you that you do not want us to be unaware, ignorant, or agnostic about who you are and what you've done. You desire that we would know who you are, how great you are, and what you've done. You desire that we would be in your presence, where there is fullness of joy forever. You have designed that this message would be proclaimed throughout the entire world, and for the last 2,000 years, that is exactly what has happened.

And so, God, I pray that You would work in us, that we would have a boldness and a passion to share the good news of great joy with the people in our lives, so that they would know that joy—the joy that we are beginning to experience. We haven't laid hold of it entirely; we have just had a little foretaste, an appetizer of that great joy.

For the ages to come, You will be revealing the riches of Your grace toward us who believe. I pray that we would rejoice in that joy that we've received because of Your love, grace, peace, and hope. God, I pray that we would share that joy by proclaiming the praises of You who called us out of darkness and into Your marvelous light.

I also pray that You'd help us to take advantage of the opportunity that we have this holiday season. As we prepare in just a couple of days to celebrate Your birth, we recognize that Your coming is the arrival of all that we ultimately want. It comes through You because of Christmas. Praise You, and we thank You in Jesus' name.