Passion Of The Christ

The Serendipitous Nail

Nails have a curious function in life. It was with nails that God wrought our salvation. I'll never forget an experience I once had with a nail. My first job after graduating from a two year teachers college in Paraguay was in Tres Palmas, a German speaking community in East Paraguay. It was during the time when Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil...

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To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness
To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness

This article is part of an extended series. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5 [He]  healed all who were sick.  This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:  “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.” - Matthew 8:16-17 Christ suffered and died so...

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To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin
To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin

This article is part of an extended series. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. - Revelation 1:5-6 Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. - Hebrews 13:12 Our...

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To Give a Clear Conscience
To Give a Clear Conscience

This article is part of an extended series. How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. - Hebrews 9:14 Dirty conscience Some things never change.  The problem of a dirty conscience is as old as Adam and Eve. ...

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To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him
To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him

This article is part of an extended series. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. - John 3:16 In our happiest times we do not want to die. The wish for death rises only when our suffering seems unbearable.  What we really want in those times is not death,...

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To give us Confident Access to the Holiest Place
To give us Confident Access to the Holiest Place

This article is part of an extended series. We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus. - Hebrews 10:19 One of the great mysteries in the Old Testament was the meaning of the worship tent used by Israel called the “tabernacle.” The mystery was hinted at but not clear.  When the people of Israel came out of Egypt...

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So We Might Belong to Him
So We Might Belong to Him

This article is part of an extended series. You also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead. - Romans 7:4 You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. -...

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So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor
So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor

This article is part of an extended series. But we see . . . Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death. - Hebrews 2:9 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.  Therefore God has highly exhalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above...

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