What the Movie Does Not Tell You

In this part of the sermon: The third omission is the movie's failure to portray the central issue of Jesus' suffering, which was not primarily the physical pain inflicted by men but the invisible, internal…

Jesus falling to the ground in Gethsemane is likened to a mighty hand pressing him down, illustrating the immense internal weight of sorrow and agony he was experiencing in his soul.

And He went forward a little and fell upon the ground. See the picture? He's walking. And suddenly this weight of His soul drags Him to the crown like a mighty hand presses Him.

36:37 - 36:53 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The third omission is the movie's failure to portray the central issue of Jesus' suffering, which was not primarily the physical pain inflicted by men but the invisible, internal…

The detail from Luke's Gospel about Jesus sweating great drops of blood is explained as hematadrosis, a medical condition caused by intense agony, to underscore the severity of his internal suffering in Gethsemane.

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground. A condition called hematadrosis in which someone is in such intense agony that they actually burst capillaries and blood can mingle with sweat. What's going on here? The cup, my soul, agony, so intense that he sweats as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground.

37:27 - 38:11 Read in full sermon

Driving home: In those hours upon the cross Jesus Christ became the greatest sinner who ever existed on the face of God's earth. Not by personal guilt not by personal defilement but by imputed guilt He stood in our room instead and th…

The three hours of darkness at the crucifixion are presented as God doing in the external world what he was doing in the invisible internal world of the Son's soul, causing him to experience the horrors of hell's abandonment and outer darkness.

Not one record of a word in the language of the old Negro spiritual and He never said a mumbling word. But now for three hours God pulls a curtain over the sky and plunges the sky into spittium midnight black darkness. God is doing in the external world what He is doing in the invisible internal world of the soul of the Son. For in those hours He is experiencing what hell will be to everyone in this place who dies impenitent and unbelieving in what Christ has done. Then will He say to them depart from Me into outer darkness. Hell is not only described as the eternal fire but the outer darkness...

40:06 - 41:16 Read in full sermon

Driving home: In those hours upon the cross Jesus Christ became the greatest sinner who ever existed on the face of God's earth. Not by personal guilt not by personal defilement but by imputed guilt He stood in our room instead and th…

Jesus on the cross is depicted as standing in court before God, laden with the sins of all who would trust him, pleading guilty on their behalf, leading to the Father's judgment of 'outer darkness' upon him.

In those hours upon the cross Jesus Christ became the greatest sinner who ever existed on the face of God's earth. He became the greatest sinner that ever existed on the face of God's earth. Not by personal guilt not by personal defilement but by imputed guilt He stood in our room instead and the Father laid upon Him the iniquity of us all and God entered into court with His Son laden with our sins and said my son you are laden with the multitude the innumerable multitude of the sins of all who will ever come to trust in you as Savior and bow to you as Lord what do you plead? And Jesus upon th...

43:17 - 44:44 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The validation of the true identity of the person of Christ and the sufficiency of the work of Christ is the empty tomb of Christ...

Joseph's open tomb is described as a 'massive megaphone' proclaiming that Jesus is who he claimed to be and that his work is finished, validating his divine identity and the sufficiency of his atonement.

according to the scriptures and he was buried and that he has been raised the third day according to the scriptures that's my gospel it has this note of this validating sequel to his death his literal physical bodily resurrection and I have called it the validating sequel why because the resurrection of Jesus validates his claims to be who he is and validates his cry it is finished the validation of the true identity of the person of Christ and the sufficiency of the work of Christ is the empty tomb of Christ in Romans 1 in verse 4 Paul says this speaking of the gospel that he preaches that co...

52:06 - 53:35 Read in full sermon

The point: To appropriate the benefits of Christ's sufferings, one must repent and believe.

Repentance and faith are described as the 'two plates on the hinge of the door of salvation,' illustrating their inseparable and foundational role in entering into salvation.

The Bible calls them repent and believe. They are the two plates on the hinge of the door of salvation. The door of salvation swings on a hinge. One plate is repentance and the other is faith.

59:14 - 59:29 Read in full sermon

The point: To appropriate the benefits of Christ's sufferings, one must repent and believe.

Repentance is illustrated as stopping, turning around, and going in the opposite direction, signifying a change from facing sin and self to facing God.

You walk in this way. Repentance is you stop turn around and you go in this way. Your face is toward sin to the world to your flesh to your lust. To your pride.

60:04 - 60:19 Read in full sermon

The point: Turn from your sin unto God as he is revealed in Jesus Christ, acknowledging your foolishness and seeking forgiveness for unworthy thoughts about God.

A Puritan quote, 'Repentance... is the vomit of the soul,' is used to vividly convey the disgust and rejection of sin that characterizes true repentance.

Everything before you is that which your own wicked heart wants and revels in. God says repentance. The old Puritan said is the vomit of the soul. You see that all of this is dishonoring and displeasing to God so much so that the only way he could make amends for it was to send his son to the cross.

60:29 - 60:52 Read in full sermon

The point: Receive Jesus in all the glory of his person as the exalted God-man and only savior of sinners, and in all the benefits of his saving work, saying, 'Lord Jesus, whatever it means to save a sinner, do it for me.'

The burden of an unresolved bad conscience is described as a 'horrible companion' that brings rumblings of future judgment, highlighting the need for the rest Jesus offers.

He says to the sinner, here you are, bow down with the weight of unresolved guilt. You've got to go to bed at night with a bad conscience. What a horrible companion is a bad conscience. And when any dark providence comes you hear as it were the rumblings of the day when you'll stand before God and give an account of the deeds done in the body.

64:39 - 65:02 Read in full sermon

The point: Receive Jesus in all the glory of his person as the exalted God-man and only savior of sinners, and in all the benefits of his saving work, saying, 'Lord Jesus, whatever it means to save a sinner, do it for me.'

A hymn lyric, 'Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to thy cross I cling,' is quoted to illustrate the helpless, empty-handed nature of saving faith that brings no personal credit.

Because if that's what it means to believe on the Lord Jesus, saying with the hymn writer, nothing in... In my hands I bring simply to thy cross I cling foul I to the fountain fly wash me Savior I die if I come as a naked, needy, helpless sinner bringing nothing to Him then I got no credit to put at my own feet for what He does.

66:52 - 67:17 Read in full sermon