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I don't know where this has come from, y'all. Maybe it's from the Lord. Maybe it's a good thing. But lately, I've been getting more concerned about all of the chemicals in my products. Like, I've been looking more closely towards just, like, my beauty products and anything else that could have harsh chemicals in it. And these days, it seems like everything has so many unnecessary chemicals in it. And I was really surprised to learn that my laundry detergent is one of the worst culprits. Every wash was leaving behind this harsh chemical residue I didn't even know about. So that's why I made the switch to Earth Breeze laundry sheets, because they don't have those harsh chemicals like dyes, parabens, phosphates, and preservatives. And I feel so much better knowing that I'm not exposing myself and even potentially my dogs. Like, I literally wash all of their bedding in this stuff that we're not getting exposed to those unnecessary toxins anymore. If you want a gentler clean, switch to Earth Breeze right now. And you can actually get 40% off with your auto shipment@earthbreeze.com on ice. That's Earth Breeze.com on ice. Mummy's the word, but we're telling everyone it's BOGO 50% off time at Designer shoe warehouse. Just in time for Mother's Day. Buy any pair of shoes, get a second qualifying pair, 50% off. Treat mom or yourself to the perfect spring styles from Must own Brands. And hurry. Unlike a mother's love, this deal won't last forever. So make mom proud and score BOGO 50% off at your DSW store or dsw.com today. Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Christ with Coffee on Ice. I am your host, Ali Yost, and it is a joy and honor to be here with you guys. I love you guys. I love you. Oh, my gosh, I love this day. It's my favorite day of the week. I know I always say that, but it's the truth. Well, first off, I hope that you guys are having a great day. Happy Friday. I hope you guys are having a very blessed week. Yes. Yeah. Today's just a good day. Today is a good day because we get to rejoice in this day because the Lord had made it, and it's his day. It's the Lord's day, and we just rejoice in that. Okay. We also obviously have our coffee on ice. I don't have my traveler, like the tumbler, the plastic one. We have our glass one. Today, so we're a little fancier today, guys. I'm going to be honest. I actually kind of cracked my plastic one. I dropped it, and it cracked, but it's not leaking, but. But it's cracked. So I don't know when that it'll just start exploding. But I haven't thrown it away yet. Cause I'm like, well, I mean, it still works, but it's got this big old crack down the side of it. Oops. That's okay. That's how loved it is. I've been using it, like, every single day. All of our merch is still available, y'all. I know that I, I, I said something about us doing, like, a spring line. I haven't worked on that at all, so I don't know. But I would love to, like, update the merch, maybe add some more fun colors. But all the original merch is still available, including our cups, which we love oh, so much. And then last but not least, actually, first and foremost, we have our Christ. So thank you, Jesus, for being here. And I would actually would just really love to pray. I would love to pray. As we get into this episode, I have an idea of what it's gonna look like, but I'm really relying on the Holy Spirit right now to just minister to all of us, including me. Honestly, it's so fun when I kind of just have, like, an idea of what we're gonna talk about. But then I'm like, okay, but spirit, you're gonna have to just do your thing. And it's cool, because I feel like he ends up actually ministering to the, the very vessel that he's using, which is me. And I love that. I love that. It's, like, really cool. Sometimes if I'm reviewing my episodes, as my editor, you know, submits it and I'm watching them over, I'll be like, whoa. Like, that just spoke to my literal soul right now. Sometimes I don't even remember saying it. It's like, I don't know. Spirit's just cool like that. So I say, let's set ourselves up for some success right now. And we're going to pray before we get into this episode. I just feel we're supposed to. So let's do it. Oh, Jesus, we just love you so much. God, I love you. I just thank you for being here. Thank you for giving us another day to just learn more about your heart. God, thank you for giving us another day to commune together as a body. And, Lord, I just lift up our listener here on the other end of this podcast. God, and I just ask that you are so near to them, not only in this episode, but also just in their life, Lord, if there are any struggles or hardships that they are going through, Jesus, I just pray that you give them clarity and you give them vision and you give them guidance on how to handle these things, even if it's just simply being still and allowing you to guide them and lead them. Lord, I just pray that you give them clarity in all the things that they need clarity in, God, if there are any big decisions that they have to make. Jesus, I just pray you are so near to every single listener right now, God, and I just thank you that you've made them for such a purpose, Lord, I thank you that they are here right now that we get to just be together, Lord, and yeah, I just bless them and their family, Lord, and I just pray that this episode ministers to every single person, God, and there's something that you have in this episode for every listener. No matter what it looks like, no matter how different our walks all look like, because we know that they are. We are all living very different lives. But the beautiful thing is we have one thing in common, which is you, Jesus, and we love you, we honor you, God, and we just lift this episode up to you, Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. Amen, everybody. Well, listen, can I give you guys a little life update actually, because something very life changing has happened to me. It's not my hair. I got brown hair now. I got brown hair. That's not the life changing. Guys, you're so silly for thinking that. No, it's not my hair. But I will say I, yes, I colored my hair. And the reason I did so, you know, it's. It's giving opposite. You know, like we're going dark for the summertime. It doesn't really make sense, but the inspiration was God. The inspiration was the God given hair color that he's given me. If you've been following me for like a long time, like even BC ally, I have always loved changing my hair color. Just love it. Kind of giving. Identity crisis. Honestly, once upon a time, kind of giving. I don't love myself and I need to look a different way all the time. You know, I just think at the frequency of how I was doing it and how drastic and different it was, each time was giving. Red flag. I think it's giving Ali does not feel secure. But that's okay. We've grown anyway. I say that because I used to like really color my hair. A lot. But the more consistent thing I've been doing is just like, you know, adding highlights and lighter pieces, which is not a crime. I'll probably do it again in my life. But the reason why I got rid of it is because I just wanted to learn how to love my hair color. You know what I mean? I don't know. This might be similar to what the Lord walked me through with makeup. And I've been honest about that here on the podcast, if you're not familiar with that. I was a freelancing makeup artist for so long. I just really covered myself in so much makeup. And so this past summer last year, the Lord was really walking me through. Almost like I was. It was a clean slate. I wasn't really wearing any makeup hardly at all anymore. It was so funny, too, because it wasn't like I was making this decision of like, okay, I'm not going to wear makeup anymore. I just felt the spirit leading me in that direction. So anyway, there were. There was a good amount of time where I was wearing very minimal to no makeup. And yeah, I just think the Lord really was showing me how to love my face first and not love my face only when and if I was wearing makeup. So obviously I wear makeup. I'm wearing it right now, but the heart postures different is what I'm saying. I felt like the Lord had to kind of unteach the things that I had taught myself from the world about my face, you know? So anyway, maybe he's doing that with my hair. I don't know. But I just felt led to embrace my natural hair color. So that's my little rant. And I appreciate you guys for listening to that. And yeah, I don't know. It's not that I will never color my hair again, but I can't tell you the last time. I tried a little bit, actually, maybe a couple years ago where I had like dark brown hair, but I feel like this is the closest to my natural. I just told my hair girl. I was like, hey, listen, you can see how my roots have grown out to about here. So can we just make it all match? And so that's what she did. And here we are. So we're a brunette for the summer. And I just want to love my hair because I know that the Lord loves my hair. He's been like, I love your hair color. And I'm like, dang, God, I want to love it too. Like, I want to love the things that you love about me, too. Maybe that's a prayer for all of us, it's not just about our hair color, but it's like, God, the things that you love about me, I also want to love about me too. So teach me how to do that. So that's what I'm walking through with this hair color. I will say it's fun. I do like it. I've only had it for about 24 hours, so here we are. Okay, but guys, stop distracting me, everyone. The thing that was life changing for me that I wanted to share with y'all is so there's been this movie that I have been told of forever, since I got saved. I have been told about this movie. Actually, it was my hairdresser, Nikki. I shout out Nikki right now. Two years ago when I first moved to la and I was just a little baby, baby, baby, just starting out in my faith journey, right? Sanctification. And so I was just telling her about how I had recently found the Lord, you know, as we chat during a hair appointment. And she was like, well, oh, my gosh, when I was younger, she's a little bit older than me, but she had gone to the theaters to see this movie with her mom. And she was like, you have to see this movie, you know, it's so good. And she said that it was called the Passion of the Christ. And I was like, huh, okay. And I don't know if I knew what it was actually about. Like, I knew it was about Jesus, and I knew that the death of Jesus was involved with this mov, but I didn't know anything about it. I never googled it after that. But the minute that I knew that the death of Jesus, like, the crucifixion was in it, I was like, I don't know if my heart can handle that. So I just never, like, it always stayed in my mind. And then obviously, as I stayed in community, this is a movie that comes up all the time. I was even hearing testimonies from people about how they literally got saved while watching this movie. And so I know about this movie and I've heard about it so much, but I never watched it. And so a couple weekends ago, Ashley was out of town for a wedding. And I had felt the Lord encourage me to watch the movie by myself at like 10 o'clock at night. And I was like, God, is this going to be, like, really hard for me to do by myself late at night? Like, I don't know. I was like, I just hope that I can handle this, you know? I guess. I don't know. That was My hesitation as I was like, obviously, I believe that this really happened to Jesus, but I don't know if my heart can bear really seeing what he did, you know, and, like, seeing it, Right? So I was like, all right, God, I'll watch it. I had no idea that that's all the movie was about. The movie starts off, and it's like, not to spoil it for anybody who hasn't seen it. I mean, we all know the story. We all know the story. What are you talking about? Allie, there is nothing to spoil, okay? But the whole movie is about it. The whole movie is about the last 12 hours of Jesus life before he died on the cross. And I didn't know that. I thought that maybe it would start off kind of like the Chosen, I guess, where it's like, you know, we see him breaking bread with the disciples, and maybe it's a few days before his crucifixion. And then we end with that. No, it's from start to finish. Right. So I'm starting to watch it. And the very first scene is Jesus, like, in the woods, kind of being tempted and tormented by the devil. And I believe this is the right before he knew it was coming, where he was sweating blood and he was praying to God. Anyway, so that's how it starts off. And then they come to arrest him. I'm like, I wonder if they're, like, going in the future and then we'll go back. I had no idea that it was literally start to finish. I will say that this movie was so incredibly done. It was so biblically sound. Oh, it was so good. Okay. It was so good. So I'll say that much. Like, no, I'm going to say so much more, but yeah, okay. So it was so well produced is what I'm saying. I'm locked in the whole time. But there were a lot of parts that were really hard for me to watch. Yeah, There were times I had to look away and there were times that I had to fast forward and I didn't want. It was almost like there was like, this guilt is so not from God. But I felt this guilt for not being able to, like, watch all of it, and I had to look away. And I was like, geez, God, I just wish that I could really, I don't know, like, honor you well and watch every moment of this. So anyway. But I felt his grace where he was like, you don't have, like, honey, I'm here. It's okay. Okay. So I watched the movie and the ending is, like, really Good. The ending is giving. To be continued. So, loved that. Yeah. So I watched the whole movie and sorry, guys, I'm going to be talking slow through this because I'm just kind of, like, processing how to communicate this. The only thing that I can tell you is obviously I felt so much grief about what Jesus went through, but I felt so much love. It's crazy. I thought I was going to be, like, mourning the whole time. And I think what helps is that we do know how it ends and we know that Jesus overcame everything because of this. So that helps that we know it's a happy ending. You know, it's so funny because when I'm watching it, I know this isn't possible, right? But, like, as I'm watching and I'm kind of hoping that he'll be spared. I don't know if that. If anyone else relates to that, but I know that the movie ends the way it does because we know how it ends. Because here we are saved and we're reborn. So thank God. Thank Jesus. Thank God for sending his one and only son, Jesus. But I don't know why, but, like, in my tummy, I was like, dang, I really hope that they just. I really hope they just spare him. No, but they couldn't because we needed Jesus. We needed him to do that. So, anyway, I felt a lot of grief, but I felt so much love. I felt so much love watching this movie. And I will say that this is not a movie that you're going to watch for entertainment. This is not a movie that you're going to watch either to, like, I don't know, I think sometimes people will be like. I don't know, like, not to punish. Like, be like, watch. This is what you did to Jesus. You need to watch this. Like, punishment. It just gave me more of an awareness of how deep his love is. And it's like, I knew that. I knew it. But to physically see what he did for me, the love that I felt watching that movie was like, wow. Like, my worship changed after watching that movie. The Secret place changed for me after watching that movie. It was just so powerful to see that kind of love. If you ever wonder how much Jesus loves you, you need to watch that movie because he did that for you. And the other thing that I felt the Lord encouraging me to do while watching this movie was like, yes, Jesus died for everyone, but it's also, his death is so personal. Like, it's so personal to each and every one of us that he died for you. Like, you. You Know, for me, sometimes I'm like, jesus died for all of us, though. Like, he died for all of us. Like, he didn't just die for me. And I'm going to share this because I believe that this is God's heart for everybody. I was kind of like having a conversation with him as the movie was over, and I was like, but surely God, you wouldn't have just done that just for me. Like, obviously that was worth it because you were saving everyone. And Jesus was like, allie, even if you were the only person that I created on this Earth, even if you were the only one, I still would have done that for you. I believe that's how Jesus feels about you, too. It's not like God just was like, oh, well, you know, this seems worth it because we should save all. It's for all of humanity. It's like, no, he loves all of us so individually that he would have done that if it was just you on planet Earth. He would have done that if there were only 10 of us. That is how big his love is. So, yeah, I think also, like, I just encourage you guys to watch it and if you haven't watched. If you've watched it before and you haven't watched it again, watch it again and really be like, all right, Jesus. I want to believe that this is, like, this is personal. I just think sometimes we forget that, that it is personal. He died for you, and that was for you. So anyway, yeah, got to the end of the movie. I was so moved, so much more obsessed and in love with Jesus after that. Didn't think it was possible. But I love that. I love that that's just our lives here on Earth. Is that just as you don't think that you could love Jesus anymore, there's opportunity to love him more. I believe that will be the rest of our lives. I don't think that there's like a ceiling to that because his love is infinite and it's endless. And so I believe that that also can be the love that we have for him too, where it's just forever. This is a forever kind of love. Okay? Jesus is a forever kind of love. And so I love that I could fall even more in love with him after watching that. I love that we can do that throughout the entirety of our lives, just grow deeper and deeper in love with Jesus. So, yeah, I felt a lot of love, which I wasn't expecting. I thought it would make me feel really guilty and it would make me feel really shameful because, like, I did that. We did that to him, you know. So then after that I'm like going down this huge rabbit hole of watching all of these interviews about the production of this movie. And this is where I don't know if it's nerdy or if it's just. I just am so fascinated by how they accomplished and made this movie. Because this is coming from a place of knowing how to produce something on a much smaller scale. With Ashley and I producing Jesus freaks and we encountered warfare, like spiritual warfare. But I was just like, dang, at a level like this where they're basically bringing the crucifixion back to life for people to witness and see. Probably the most powerful movie we could ever make in the history of mankind. And I'm like, I can only imagine the warfare. So I'm googling it and I'm like, I didn't even say anything about spiritual warfare. All I googled was what happened on set of the Passion of the Christ. And all of this stuff comes up. Y'all actually, I need to read some. You will be floored if you don't already know these facts. If you know them, then honestly, you really stayed knowing your stuff. Okay. During filming of the Passion of the Christ, Jim, who played Jesus, experienced several incidences, including being struck by lightning twice, accidentally whipped during the scourging scene, leaving a 14 inch scar and dislocating his shoulder from the weight of the cross. Because there was a scene where he was actually physically carrying the cross. So Jim was struck by lightning twice during filming, once while filming the Sermon on the Mount and again during the crucifixion. So there were a couple times in the movie where they showed little mini flashbacks of Jesus's life. God, the movie is so good. I'm going to watch it when I get home after this. Goodbye. I honestly, I might watch it like once a month because I will say I'm sorry, I'm getting off track. One second. I will say that I do think that this, nothing else mattered to me after watching that movie, nothing else mattered. And I'm not saying like I just gave up, threw my hands in the air and said nothing else matters. But like when I say the things that, that annoy me, the things that are inconvenient to me, things that maybe haven't been delivered in my life yet, all of those, like, little. And they might also be big. But like those things, the things that we worry about, the things that take up the space of our minds, that just honestly shouldn't be just worrying and being like, ah, this is so annoying. Nothing else mattered anymore. After watching that movie. I was like, oh, Jesus is the only thing that matters. Like, I don't know, it just grounded me even more. Yeah. I was like, oh my gosh. Like, what the. What am I even. He did that for me. Like, he's the only thing that matter. What am I sitting here complaining about the fact that it was 55 degrees when I woke up this morning and I had to get in my car. It was freezing. Like, what? The audacity. I don't know. Or like even sitting here and worrying about my future like nothing else matters. Like Jesus, it just. It'll really ground you. It'll really bring you back to what matters. It'll bring you back down to earth. And I'm not saying that it like invalidates everything, but it's like, oh no, this is what matters. I felt what was happening is it was setting me back on that firm foundation of like, oh, only Jesus. That's it. Only the lamb and the lamb crucified. That's it done. That's all that matters. So anyway, okay. But they would do little flashbacks of his life briefly, but then getting back to the fate of what was going to happen to Jesus. And so they did a scene briefly of him on the mount. So I guess he got struck by lightning then. And then also during the crucifixion when he was hanging on the cross. During the filming of the scourging scene, which is when the Romans were whipping Jesus, Jim was accidentally whipped, resulting in a 14 inch scar on his back. Jim dislocated his shoulder when the 150 pound cross dropped on his shoulder. I think they might have even kept that scene. Like you could see where it actually fell on his shoulder, but in that like his literal shoulder was actually dislocated, but they kept that moment. I believe Jim also suffered from pneumonia and hypothermia during extended filming sessions on the cross in cold, windy conditions. They were filming in Italy, I believe, and it was, I think it was between like, I don't know, October and like February, but like the coldest months. So kind of the wintertime is when they were filming it. And then their assistant director, set production assistant was also struck twice by lightning, hence nicknamed Lightning Boy. Is. I guess they gave him that nickname, which is as seen in the credits. So I guess they put that in the credits. And then Jim had described the filming of the movie as torture. Jim is a believer. I believe he's Catholic, but he loves Jesus and he spoke about that very much. So in his interviews. So I'm like, down this rabbit hole to one in the morning watching all these interviews of Jim. And I really believe that, honestly, you could only love Jesus to play that role. I don't know, but I'm just like, if you didn't have faith in Jesus and you're facing this kind of warfare and, like, physical pain and torture, I don't know how you could do that as just getting it as a gig, you know, like, if they were just hired for the job, like, you actually would have to love Jesus. Because what Jim was saying is he said that it actually strengthened his faith so much because the only thing he could do was lean on God. He, like, lost a ton of weight. And he said the spirit of God was the only thing that kept me going. So everyone just blessed Jim and everyone who created this movie and was a part of it. After that, I was like, God, I bless these people. Listen, I know I'm 20 years late. I think they produced this in 2005, but I'm like, oh, my gosh. Like, bless these people abundantly, Lord. I pray you have so many treasures in heaven for them. Because the dedication that they had to make this film, and I know that it's impacted. There could be so many people who are listening right now that have crazy testimonies that involve this movie. Okay, so then the next day I wake up and my heart has grown a million sizes for Jesus. I can't explain it, but I've woken up the next day and I'm like, oh, my gosh, I'm in love. I changed my. Listen, that's Jesus. I love him so much. I was just, like, on a different level of. It hasn't left. It hasn't left ever since I watched the movie. And the next day was Sunday. You know, I go to church and I'm telling all my friends, because also my friends were like, you gotta watch it. You gotta watch it. So I'm updating them, and I'm like, changed my life, I said. But there were some times where I had to look away. And I just really wanna watch, like, I really wanna watch it through and through, you know, Like, I just wanna give Jesus that. And I just wanna be able to, like, sit through the whole movie. And so I was like, I think I'm gonna watch it again today. So I did. I watched it again the next day, and same thing all over again. Nothing about it was old. And I pray nothing about what Jesus did for us ever gets old. Amen. And I could watch it through this time, and I. Oh, man. The closeness I felt to Jesus. It's just such a good movie. So anyway, I. I'm sorry I've ended up talking about this the whole time, but it legitimately changed my life and I could not recommend that movie more. And I believe that they are going to be making a sequel. Jim said something about it. Interview. He had said that him and Mel Gibson were gonna make the Resurrection, continuing that. So this was just the crucifixion and then the Resurrection. So that. Actually, let's Google it. A sequel to the Passion of the Christ. 2004. Initial release is 2026. Whoa. It's coming out next year. The film will explore the events following Jesus's crucifixion, focusing on the spiritual and eternal significance of his resurrection. Filming is expected to begin in 2026. Okay, well, if they're filming in 2026, I feel like it probably wouldn't come out. Okay, whatever. It's the Internet, so we're going to get a bunch of different things. We'll have a summer of 2025 production start. So they. I think. I don't know, they could be starting it now, but it'll be soon, so that's exciting. That's huge. That's like legit. 20 years later, they're making the sequel. So revival is here, everybody. It's crazy. Anyway, so that changed my life, and I really appreciate you guys for letting me share that with you. And I pray encouraged someone to watch the movie because it was really powerful. Yeah. I just think it's a really incredible thing to watch, to just, I don't know, fall in love with Jesus even deeper or all over again.