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The Passion
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Introduction
- Your responsibility for this lesson is to follow the Berean
model (Acts 17:11).
- The “Passion” theologically is the suffering Christ experienced
on the cross of Calvary.
- Remarks pertaining to Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion.
- Remarks pertaining to the cross as an icon, symbol or ornament.
Reality (or what actually happened on the cross)
- During the 3 hours of darkness (6th hour
until the 9th hour).
- Christ took upon Himself and became our sin and thereby
became a curse (2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13).
- Christ suffered spiritual death (separation from the Father)
because of our sins—“My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me”
(Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:33).
- Christ’s payment for our sins was completed on the cross—“It
is finished” (John 19:30), from GK: teleo (from
telos—“end, goal”) meaning “to carry something to completion”
and also used of paying taxes (Matthew 17:24; Romans 13:6)
- Then, and only then, Christ allowed Himself to die physically—man
could never take His life (John 10:15-18; Luke 23:46;
John 19:30).
Benefits
- Redemption—man’s debt due to sin (spiritual death and bondage)
paid in full by Christ (Matthew 20:28; Ephesians 1:7;
1 Peter 1:18, 19; Titus 2:14).
- Expiation—a sister term to “redemption,” meaning the
canceling of a debt for a payment made. Because Christ paid the
penalty-price for man’s sin, God has cancelled the debt resulting from
man’s sin (Colossians 2:14; 1 Peter 2:24).
- Imputation—God charged to the account of Christ man’s
sin, so that He could charge to the account of man Christ’s
righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 3:22)
- Forgiveness—man’s sins are forgiven/set aside/cancelled (Ephesians
1:7; Acts 13:38).
- Reconciliation—the hostility due to sin between God and man was
eliminated by Christ, restoring fellowship between the two (Romans
5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Ephesians 2:16;
Colossians 1:20, 21).
- Regeneration—man’s spiritual condition once dead is renovated,
revitalized, reactivated—“made alive again” (Titus 3:5; John
1:12, 13; 3:3; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:5;
Colossians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:3, 23).
- Propitiation—the holiness of God, which requires a stern
judgment for sin, has been satisfied by Christ (Romans 3:25;
1 John 2:2; 4:10).
- Justification—God legally pronounced man just (Acts
13:39; Romans 3:24; 5:17-19).
- Sanctification—God has “set apart” (purification) man (1)
positionally, and by His Spirit (2) experientially, and
eventually (3) finally (1 Corinthians 1:2; 5:1; 6:1-8;
Acts 20:32; Hebrews 10:10; 1 Peter 1:2; Jude 1;
1 Peter 1:15; Romans 6:2-10; Colossians 2:9-13; 2
Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2; Romans 8:29, 30;
1 John 3:1-3; 1 Corinthians 15:35-54; 1 Thessalonians
4:13-18; Jude 24. It is an on-going process during this
life requiring confession of sin (1 John 1:9) and
faith (Colossians 2:6) and appears to be in direct
proportion to the acquisition of Bible doctrine (John 17:17;
Romans 12:2; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Timothy 3:16, 17;
Proverbs 23:7).
- Glorification—the ultimate state of man in Christ (Romans
8:17; Philippians 3:21; Colossians 3:4;
Revelation 22:5).
Activation (what makes it efficacious)—FAITH
ALONE IN CHRIST ALONE.
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