The cross of Christ is the victory of God (oh, strange victory!) over all the powers of this world that pretend to be absolute. “Nothing now is absolute except God as he is known in Jesus Christ; everything else is relativized.” 25 This means Christ is not just your individual savior, who came to save you from your individual sins and then whisk you away from this world. Rather, Jesus is the King of all creation, who in the most unlikely place and in the most unlikely fashion, unmasked, disarmed, and defeated these opposing powers with his own bleeding hands.
