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"The Outtakes From The Passion Of The Christ - What The Movie Doesn't Tell You!"

Copyright 2004, All rights reserved
by Pastor David Legge

Let's read from Isaiah chapter 53, and tonight will be far from an exposition of this passage, I'm just using it as a starting block for the theme of our meeting tonight: the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. Isaiah chapter 53, and do know that this was written prophetically hundreds of years before the Lord Jesus was ever born. It's found in the Old Testament of course, before the Lord Jesus came into this world, but it is written in view of what the Saviour would go through on the cross of Calvary.

So we read from verse 1: "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he", the Saviour, "shall grow up before God as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors" - and we know that God will bless the reading of this very precious portion of His word.

Well, this Friday there will be the launch of the film that has been talked about, particularly in the United States of America, for the last month or so. I believe and hope from what I have said particularly today, and indeed what I'll say tonight, that you will probably be bombarded in the next days and weeks with a plethora of advertising, discussions on shows, television, radio, in periodicals and magazines and newspapers, with the consideration of this film: Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of The Christ'. I want to say quite categorically that what I'm going to share with you this evening is not a critique of the film either negatively or positively in a sense - I did that this morning, and if you're interested in that I would advise you to get the tape. What I want to home in on this evening are crucial aspects that are essential to salvation, crucial aspects that the word of God tells us we need to know if we are to be saved, which are either omitted from Mel Gibson's film or scantily alluded to.

In other words, you can watch this film - as many people already have in the United States of America - and be mightily moved, you could be deeply emotionally and even in one sense spiritually affected, you could be converted to some religious system or organisation, but yet with all that never actually experience the literal real saving power of Almighty God, the real power of the cross of Jesus Christ. You could see it all, understand it in measure, even respond in an emotional sense, and remain lost in your sins without hope of God or heaven. So I want to preach the Gospel to you tonight under these headings of things that the film does not tell you - the out-takes, and an out-take is simply something that's been cut out of the film - but in a sense strictly these things haven't been cut out of the film, they were never in the film in the beginning, but rather have been cut out of the biblical narration of why the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world and why He went to the cross.

Here's the first thing that is not in Mel Gibson's film: the true identity of the central character of the story. You will not find within this film the true identity of the central character, i.e. the Lord Jesus Christ. Of course, you will be aware, I'm sure if you're aware of nothing else, that the great debate that has been encircling this film is 'Who was responsible for putting the Lord Jesus Christ to death?'. Was it the Jews? The Jews are in an uproar, insinuating that Mel Gibson is inciting anti-Semitism. Was it the Romans? The Emperor? Was it Pontius Pilate? Who was it?

Let me say to you before we even look and consider that question, a more important question is not 'Who put Jesus to death?', but 'Who was the one who died?'. Not who put Jesus on a cross, but who was the one who was hanging there on that centre cross? You see, it is the true identity of the sufferer on Calvary's cross that determines the true value, and indeed the result of the suffering. What am I talking about? Because of who Jesus is, His death has accomplished what it did. It's of supreme importance to understand who the Lord Jesus Christ is. In fact, it could be argued that much of the four Gospels were the journey of understanding in the life of Christ's disciples as to who He really was. They didn't understand everything about Jesus Christ from the day and the hour that they followed Him. In fact, we read in Matthew's gospel 16 that the Lord Jesus one day said to Peter: 'Peter, whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? I mean what's the common saying about me at the present time? Who do they think I am this week, Peter?'. Peter replied: 'Well, some think you are Elijah, some think that you're one of the old prophets, some think that you're even John the Baptist come back from the dead'. And Jesus pointed the question back to him again, point-blank right between the eyes: 'Peter, who do you say that I am? Ultimately, Peter, it doesn't really matter what other people think about me, but what do you think about who I am?'. And Peter responded in this immortal statement: 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God'. The Lord Jesus said to Peter: 'Peter, flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto you, but my Father which is in heaven'.

Now if the Lord Jesus Christ was not the Son of God, that means generically linked with the Father, God in heaven who created all things; the only begotten of God, that means coming from God out of the bosom of the Father; He is the Son of God, that means He in essence is God Himself, God the Son - if He was not so, would He not have said: 'Hold on a minute, Peter, that statement has the potential of misleading every follower of mine for the rest of human history thinking I'm the Son of God, God the Son, when I'm not!'. Did He say that? He did not, in fact He said: 'Something that you've just said, Peter, could only be revealed to you by God, because it is the truth of God'. It is the greatest truth, perhaps, in the whole universe: that God's Son came into the world to save sinners. This was not just a prophet or a priest, or a patriarch or a great religious leader or miracle worker, this was none other than God come among men!

Now maybe that's not enough proof for you, well I'm sure you've heard about Doubting Thomas. He missed the first appearing of the Lord Jesus to the disciples, and he wouldn't believe them, he said: 'Except I see the nailprints in His hands, and the scar in His side, I will not believe'. So one day the Lord Jesus did reveal Himself to him, and He invited Thomas: 'Here I am, Thomas, you can see the nailprints, you can see the scar in my side, put your finger in the prints, put your hand into my side' - and Thomas was overwhelmed with reality of the risen Christ, after death, after resurrection, that he fell at the feet of the Lord Jesus and said: 'My Lord, and my God'. Then the Lord Jesus said: 'Oh, sorry Thomas, no, that's a misunderstanding, you're reading too much into who I am' - is that what the Lord Jesus Christ said? No, He said this: 'Blessed are they that have not seen, yet believe'. What does He mean? 'Blessed are they, Thomas, that don't need to see me risen again, but believe what you have said, that I am Lord and I am God'.

My friend, it is empirical that you understand who the Lord Jesus Christ is. From His conception in a virgin womb as the Son of Almighty God, that in His being dwelt two natures: a human nature and a divine nature in one person, unmingled, definite. He is God - do you realise that? - manifest in flesh! He had to be a man in order to bring men to God, and to represent men in the sacrifice; but he had to be God in order to make a sacrifice that was acceptable to a righteous and holy God. Here is this God-man in one person as a human being, bringing heaven and earth together as the one mediator between God and men - the man Christ Jesus. You can watch two hours of gore on a centre tree by a man who, of course, believes that Jesus is the Son of God - but if nothing tells you in that film that He is who He said He was, it wouldn't matter if He died a thousand deaths like that, it would be absolutely useless to any of us. The true identity of the central character: He is God's Son.

Here's the second thing that this film does not tell us: it doesn't tell us the real instigators of His cruel death, the cruel death of the Lord Jesus that is pictured two hours long of the last 12 hours of Christ's life. It doesn't tell us who is responsible for it. Now you might ask me: 'Well, who do you think the primary agent of it all is?'. As I said there has been an uproar, an accusation of anti-Semitism from the Jews because it seems that Mel Gibson, many think, is levelling the guilt and the blame against the Jewish race for crucifying the Lord Jesus Christ, the Sanhedrin. Others think: 'Well, it was the Romans, the Romans could have stopped it all. Pontius Pilate, if he hadn't washed his hands of the Lord Jesus Christ, could have saved Him, and had the power to do such - but he was worried about a riot and an upsurge, a rebellion, so he went with the Jews'. Can I say to you today that anybody who reads the whole of the word of God could never have an anti-Semitic bone in their whole body, when you see how God has called and blessed and has a future for the people of the Jews.

What I want to say to you tonight is firmly found in the word of God: that the guilt for the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ is not levelled at any one person or any one race, in fact when the apostles were praying in Acts chapter 4 and verse 26 and 27 we read them saying these words: 'The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together' - did you get that? There's not one left out: Herod, the Jew, half-Jew, Edomite; Pontius Pilate, the Roman; with the Gentiles, Gentile nations; and the people of Israel, the Israelites, the Jews - they were all gathered together. The apostles say 'the kings of the earth stood up, the rulers gathered themselves together against the Lord, and against the Lord's anointed'. In other words we're all guilty!

There's no one race or one people guilty of this sin alone, we are all guilty of it, and we need to realise that! If you're ever to be saved, my friend, you need to realise that is not the Jew's fault, or the Roman's fault, it's your fault! It's your sins, that's what the passion of Christ was all about: your sins, the personal sins, the private sins, the sins that you would want no one to know even your nearest and dearest, the sins of the darkest depths of the dungeons of your heart were all laid upon Christ - that is what put Him to death! He went to the cross because of your sin ultimately! Do you realise that tonight? For if you don't realise that, you'll never be saved, no matter how many hours of the passion of Christ you watch.

But there's something else that the apostles say in their prayers, in verse 28 they have laid the blame on everybody in the world because everybody in the world is a sinner - all have sinned and come short of the glory of God - but then he makes a very interesting statement in verse 28: 'They did this for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done'. Did you get that? 'Lord, it's not only these human beings on the earth of every tongue and people that have put Christ to death because of their sin, but Lord they were only doing what You determined way back in the eternal counsel. You determined that Christ should go to Calvary and bleed and die, it was in Your will, O God' - and my friend, if you don't realise that there is a transcendent force, a prime mover and instigator at Calvary, none other than God, I don't know whether you can be saved or not. If you think that He was just a martyr being put to death, or some religious leader dying for a cause, or people just cruelly put Him to death and it was a miscarriage of justice, and you don't realise that God actually took His own Son and pinned Him to a cross, and laid on Him your sin and my sin in order that we may be free, that is the fundamental factor of the gospel - if you miss that you miss everything!

Someone has said: 'Sin is so big that it took a Christ with a cross to measure it'. Oh, there is much in this film of the bruising of the Lord Jesus, the soldiers are doing it at every cut and turn to Him - but where in this film is what we have read in Isaiah 53? 'The LORD laid on him the iniquity of us all' - verse 6; verse 10: 'It pleased the LORD to bruise him' - where is the Lord bruising Christ in this film, for that's what your salvation rests upon if you're saved?

Oh, I wish I had time to tease this all out, it's mighty - but I wonder do you know this personally, that in all this great universe, think of the size of the universe and the solar systems within it, and the great planets and the size of our sun in comparison to our own planet earth. Think of how insignificant you must be: imagine coming from the end of space, and travelling further and further, closer and closer, like watching it through a telescope - and you come into the Milky Way, and then you come into our solar system, and then you come into the surrounding circle of an atmosphere of planet earth and you see all the continents and all the countries, and the great oceans of the world. You come in further and further and you see the continent of Europe, then you come in closer and you see the United Kingdom, and then you see the island of Ireland, and then you come in closer and you see Northern Ireland, and then you see Belfast, and then you see East Belfast, and then you see Templemore Avenue and you see the church, and you see the congregation - and there's a little speck in the whole of God's landscape of eternity, and it's you! And God sent His Son to Calvary for you!

Oh my friend, think of the sins that you have committed not just in your life, that's impossible - for me anyway - but imagine the sins you've committed today. Don't tell me you haven't, because you're a liar if you do - if we say that we have not sin we make not only ourselves a liar, but God, because He tells us we've sinned. What about the sins this week? What about the sins this month? What about the sins this year? The last decade? The whole of our lives? Multiply them all up, and they were laid upon Him - that is what sent Jesus to the cross!

Thirdly: this film doesn't tell us the difference in His death from all the other deaths. It's a bit akin to what I've been sharing with you, it's the answer to the question: 'What is the cross?'. Some people think it's a piece of wood, some people think it's an incident in history, others think it was a miscarriage of justice second to none, others believe it was an accident or mistake, some believe it's something that just got out of hand politically, religiously, in a cultural melting pot. Others believe it was a great example of martyrdom and love, people think it's a piece of jewellery, a lucky charm, something with supernatural powers to keep ghosts away. Others believe it's a church decor, something on a table or something on a wall within a holy sanctuary. Others believe, as Mel Gibson seems to espouse, that the cross of Christ is the physical suffering of the Lord Jesus - can I tell you tonight that there were perhaps over 30,000 people in the history of humanity that were crucified, over 30,000!

The Emperor Darius the Mede took 3000 people captive on one occasion and he crucified every single one of them. Alexander the Great was great for crucifying people. In one day he crucified 2000 - one day, 2000 crucified! One historian says: 'Crosses stood on Tyre's hillside, more numerous than the masts in Tyre's harbour'. Another historian said of Titus the Emperor, of his conquest of Jerusalem, that there was not enough wood around Jerusalem to build crosses because he was putting so many people to death! I do not belittle, do not misunderstand me, the physical sufferings of our Lord - yes, He suffered! He suffered contusion, He was hit on the head with a reed and punched around the face. He suffered lacerations, scourged with a vicious instrument like a cat-o'-nine-tails, the thongs tipped with steel and bone claws. He suffered penetration, thorns on His brow, great long spikes forced into His head and further beaten down by the reed. He suffered perforation, nails piercing through, right through His hands and His feet. He suffered incision, a spear cutting His side - the Bible says: 'forthwith came blood and water'. But don't leave it there, for the Bible says that that was the least of His sufferings! It was not easy, but it was easy in comparison with what He was about to go through!

I can say, I think, that many people suffered a like death as Jesus in the physical sense, and I can say categorically that some hung longer on the cross than He did, for He was taken down early for the Sabbath. The fact of the matter is: our redemption does not lie in the physical sufferings of Christ, this is no mere historical incident! It was foretold within the word of God, Isaiah 53 that we read, it was no accident, God planned it. It was not just physical, there was something spiritual going on at Calvary, and that's why a film can't show you it! Only the word of God can tell us about it, it is the unseen sufferings of the soul of Jesus that redeem us from sin, the soul of His sufferings is the sufferings of His soul.

We do not read any record of Jesus crying out during the physical sufferings on the cross, but what we do read of is that at the end of those three hours of darkness when He was carrying my sins and yours away in His own body on the tree, He cried: 'My God, my God...Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani...why hast thou forsaken me?'. His soul was suffering for sin, as Isaiah said, His soul was being poured out as an offering for sin. One writer has said: 'Christ suffered in His soul the dreadful torments of a person condemned and irretrievably lost. If Christ's soul had experienced no punishment, he would have only been the Redeemer of the body' - but He is both Redeemer of soul and body, because the Bible says He bore our sins in His own body on the tree.

My friend, I wish I could express to you what's in my heart. What sins have you committed in your life? Idolatry? Put things before God? Adultery? Even in your mind, thoughts of lust, your eyes have seen pornography? You've sinned against God, you've lied to your family and your friends, your work colleagues. You've cheated, you've stolen, you've taken the Lord's name in vain - we could go on and on, maybe you have murdered, maybe you have hated which is equivalent to that in the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ. All these sins that have mounted up in your lifetime, sins that would almost reach as high as heaven, think about this: they were not just laid upon the Lord Jesus, but they were accredited to Him. It was as if He was saying before the Father on the cross: 'I'm guilty as charged, Lord, I'm taking these sins as my own'. Effectively He was representing there the biggest sinner that ever lived, taking upon Himself our sin and the sins of the world!

He who knew no sin, who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth; He was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Do you realise this, that your personal sins were laid upon Him? For three hours, from the sixth to the ninth hour, Jesus endured on Calvary's cross the wrath of Almighty God. There was darkness, but do you know what that was speaking of, the physical darkness? Spiritual darkness that every man will experience when they're sent to hell! Do you know what the thirst was that He experienced on the cross? It was speaking to us of the thirst, spiritually, in His soul that you and I would have to have if we went to hell. The fire in His bosom was the very fire of hell that every man will endure if they reject the Lord Jesus Christ. The thorns in His brow represented the thorns of sin that have bound humanity throughout all of history. His physical sufferings were nothing more than a communication of what God was doing, the transaction of the Trinity that was going on in His bosom.

Galatians 3:13 says that on that cross He was made a curse, for cursed is every man that hangeth upon a tree. Blessed cross, I say, blessed sepulchre, but blessed rather be the Man that there was put to shame for me. We sing it sometimes here in the Iron Hall:

'Jehovah bade His sword awake,
Oh, Christ it woke 'gainst Thee.
Thy blood the fiery blade must slake,
Thy heart its sheath must be,
All for my sake, my peace to make,
Now rests that sword for me'.

My friend, don't miss the whole point of it all. Winston Churchill, after the Second World War said: 'Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few', and we could say of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: never in the history of all the universe has mankind owed so much to One.

I must move on, fourthly: the film omits the sequel to the passion, the sequel to the passion. You see, the cross of Christ is only the beginning of the whole matter, for the Lord rose again! Now at the end of a film for a few moments there is an allusion, for 60 or 30 seconds, I can't remember, an allusion of the resurrection of Christ - but the dominance of this movie is the cross. Let me say that without the resurrection of Christ the cross is worthless, it is meaningless and pointless! The fact that God raised the Lord Jesus from the dead again was the full-stop upon Jesus' work to say: 'Well done, that work satisfies me, and men now can be saved. Your work has met my standards', and He rose Him from the grave.

I mean, how would you know that Jesus' work on the cross was finished if He was still lying in the grave - you wouldn't know it! But to prove it He rose Him again from the grave for our justification, to know that we can be saved. That's why the Bible says that He is alive today, that's why He's able to save men and women and our world, and indeed to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him - Hebrews said - seeing He ever liveth. Sure, what good is a dead Saviour to anybody? That's why we don't have crucifixes with a dead Christ hanging on an old cross, because the cross is empty, the tomb is vacant, and my Saviour is in glory!

But the sequel doesn't just end with His resurrection, the sequel ends one day with His return. One film that came out recently was J. R. R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings', the third part of it which is called 'The Return of the King' - I tell you, that film has nothing on this return! One day, Isaiah in his book tells us again in another portion, chapter 63, of Jesus coming into this world, and He will have garments on Him dyed red not with His own blood, but with the blood of men and women who have rejected Him! The book of the Revelation says that when He comes again: 'He will tread the winepress of the fierceness and the wrath of God', for He is returning in judgment!

You can sit and weep for two hours over the blood of Christ, but what about your own blood? Does that film tell you? Do you realise, my friend, that Jesus is coming, and you will be responsible at His return as to what you have done with Him?

Fifthly and finally, what the film definitely does not tell you is the response required of you. We've looked at how the true identity of the central character is left out, the real instigators of His cruel death are left out, the difference in His death from all other deaths is left out, and the sequel of His resurrection and return - but here's something that's so personal to you tonight: the response required of you is omitted. What am I talking about? Well, you will be shocked if you watch it, there's no doubt about that. Most people have had pity as they've watched it - but God doesn't need your pity, God wants your repentance, and God wants you to exercise faith in His Son, not to express sympathy to Him.

Human emotion is a contagious thing. I remember years ago when I was a child, I'll not say how many, but years ago I received a tape from a grandfather, and there was 'The Laughing Policeman' on it - you remember that song, 'The Laughing Policeman'? I'll not sing it for you because I'll have you all in stitches - 'Ha, ha, ha! Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!'. He laughs like that over and over again, and before you realise it you're laughing, and everybody's laughing, because it's contagious. That is what human emotion is like, it's contagious. If you're like me, you can be hardhearted in a sense, and never shed a tear - and then someone starts blurting their eyes out, and you're away with it. It's something that affects us, it's communicated from heart-to-heart. But you could experience tears and an emotional movement in 'The Titanic', when you see thousands of people being plunged to their deaths in the Atlantic Ocean. You could experience it in 'Gone with the Wind', with Scarlett O'Hara and whatever goes on - I don't know what happens. But the fact of the matter is: to be moved emotionally means absolutely nothing to your soul! It could be the greatest rotten criminal that was on that cross being beat to a pulp, and you, if you weren't dead inside, would be moved at that as well. The fact that this in the film is a central religious character means the reaction will be massive, people will be moved, people will be affected, but the question is: is there any biblical understanding of sin, of repentance, and of saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?

I said this morning that when the Lord was carrying the cross, the women of Jerusalem were weeping, and He said to them - and I think this is a commentary on this whole film - 'Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and weep for your children. Weep for what you're going to go through if you don't accept what I'm about to do for you'. There's a response that's needed! The Lord doesn't need your sympathy in a cinema, He requires you to weep in repentance and in adoration for the Lord and to put your faith in Him.

Paul said in 2 Corinthians: 'For godly sorrow', godly sorrow, the real thing, 'worketh repentance for salvation, not to be repented of' - that means it's a once for all thing that you don't go back on. Is this not true? I don't want to be facetious, but if I watch John Wayne on his horse, even at my age, for half an hour I want to be John Wayne. Then I remember I've a sermon to preach on Sunday and the idea flies away! You can be moved, my friend, watching Christ - but I'm asking you tonight, no matter what you think of Christ, or what you have felt about Christ: have you repented of your sin? It's not a fascination with a film character God wants, but it's the forsaking of your sin and exercising faith. The question that Pilate asked the crowd on the day that he was delivering Christ over to crucifixion was: 'What will you do with Jesus who is called Christ?' - what is your response? Have you ever responded to Him?

'Three crosses on a lonely hill,
A thief on either side;
And in between, the Son of God -
How wide the gulf, how wide.

One thief spanned it with the words:
O Lord, remember me!
The other scorned and turned away
To a lost eternity.

Forsaken is that hilltop now,
No crosses any more.
But in the hearts of believing men
That cross lives ever more!

Still, as when these sentinels
First met earth's wandering view,
The presence of the Lord divides
At the cross: on which side are you?'

Saved or lost - that is what the cross means, that is what the cross requires of you.

This message isn't about a film, why waste your time talking about a film when you can talk about the Lord Jesus Christ? He is here tonight by His Spirit, willing and able, well able to save your soul - for He has saved many before you. But will you come tonight? Will you come, repenting of your sin and putting your faith in Christ?

Father, we pray tonight that Thy word would be effective in the life of some lost soul in this place tonight, and that they would realise what our Saviour endured on that tree. Lord, can we say: thank You for Calvary. We cannot see what went on, but dear God it's just as well perhaps that we can't. Father we thank Thee for it. We pray that, as we read in this passage of Scripture tonight, that Jesus our Lord and Christ, this very night would see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied. Amen.

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Transcribed by:
Andrew Watkins
Preach The Word.
March 2004
www.preachtheword.com

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