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Mel Gibson's movie gives the story of Christ's crucifixion, with some unfortunately Catholic scenes. But the basic narrative of Christ's suffering, death and resurrection has been presented to millions of Biblically illiterate people for the first time through this film. Last Monday, the Los Angeles Daily News said that a surprisingly large number of those attending the film were "non-religious" young people between the age of 18 and 30 (Los Angeles Daily News, March 16, 2004, Business section, p. 5).

What's wrong with that? "The Passion of the Christ" will not, of itself, produce revival. But I for one think it will do these kids a lot more good than seeing the garbage that Hollywood has been serving up to them for several decades! I for one am glad that these "non-religious" young people are being confronted with the horror, suffering, and pain that Jesus Christ went through to pay for our salvation. It won't do them one bit of harm to think about the violence that was poured out on the Son of God.

I smell a "rotten apple" when these critics cry that the film is too violent. These are the same people who gave Anthony Hopkins an Academy Award for eating human flesh! Hannibal the Cannibal was great - but they turn their mouths down at the suffering Christ! These are the same people who applaud Sam Peckinpah's "Wild Bunch" as "a classic." These are the same people who invented and pushed "splatter" films. Now they have turned very pious, and are suddenly afraid that this movie will harm young people. As Shakespeare said, "Something is wrotten in the state of Denmark." And when these critics say that Gibson's film is "too violent," I think something is wrotten in the media!

The New York Times reports that the powers that be in the movie industry - those defenders of artistic freedom who bewail the blacklisting of Hollywood's communists decades ago - are going to punish Mr. Gibson for making this movie (World, March 13, 2004, p. 25).

Newsweek came out with a cover story attacking the Bible itself. The Dallas Morning News trotted out liberal theologians who denied that Christ's death was sacrificial and an atonement. Said [one of them] from Berkeley, "It makes God sound bloodthirsty" (ibid.).

"Too violent," they say. "Too violent"! But I say that's exactly what is written in the four gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John! John MacArthur jumped on the bandwagon with these naysayers. I received a copy of a letter to MacArthur from an independent Baptist pastor in the South. The pastor wrote to Dr. MacArthur, concerning a sermon he heard MacArthur give recently,

Your apparent disdain for the "Passion" movie could also be clearly seen last night…when you tried to put the movie (and the violent blood-shedding death of Christ) down by saying, "Do you think the Mel Gibson 'Passion' movie is that important? It's not. During that time there were 30,000 crucifixions, during that time of the Roman Empire, and Paul was beaten and scourged three times."

Then that Baptist preacher said,

The other 30,000 crucifixions, as well as Paul's scourging, were relative to mortal, sinful flesh, men who were not the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. I just don't know why you went out of the way to mention the other 30,000 scourgings and beatings. Is it possible that the movie's depictions of the violent blood-shedding death of Christ bring about your apparent disdain for the movie in view of your preaching for years that "His blood was normal human blood…[no amount of mere bloodshed would have had any efficacy to save sinners"] (John MacArthur, The Murder of Jesus, Word, 2000, p. 42).

That Baptist preacher ended his letter by saying to Dr. MacArthur,

Please repent and start immediately preaching on the divine, efficacious, incorruptible, precious, necessary, and sinless Blood that Christ shed during His violent… death.

And I agree with that preacher! In his open letter to Dr. MacArthur, that preacher also said,

Perhaps Mel Gibson would not have needed to pursue this movie if we were doing our job like great preachers from 150 years ago who consistently preached Christ's violent, blood-shedding death…His death was violent and blood-shedding.

Amen! And Amen!

"The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin"
      (I John 1:7).

The Hollywood movie moguls, the liberal theologians from Berkeley, the New York Times, Newsweek, and even John MacArthur may say that the film is too violent and too bloody - but I say, "Hallelujah for the Blood!"

"The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin"
      (I John 1:7).

Hallelujah for the Blood! Hallelujah, what a Saviour!

Shall we be ridiculed for upholding the passion of Jesus Christ? Shall we be mocked for promoting and proclaiming His agony, His scourging, His pain and death and Blood? Great Spurgeon asked it, and so will I.

Shall we be censured if we continually proclaim the heaven-sent message of the blood of Jesus? Shall we speak [in a whisper] because some affected person shudders at the sound of the word "blood"? or some "cultured" individual rebels at the old-fashioned thought of sacrifice? Nay, verily, we will sooner have our tongue cut out than cease to speak of the precious blood of Jesus Christ (C. H. Spurgeon, "The Blood of Sprinkling," The Metropolitan Tabernacle  Pulpit,  Pilgrim,  1974  reprint,  volume  XXXII,  page 129).

"The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin"
      (I John 1:7).

We are here to win sinners to Jesus Christ! This cannot be done without emotion, without passion, without Blood, or without violence - for "the violent take it by force" (Matthew 11:12).

Urge me on, brethren, to preach a violent, Blood-soaked gospel! Urge the Holy Spirit to come and quicken sinners. Urge "non-religious" youth who see this "Passion" to come in and hear sound gospel preaching. "Compel them to come in" (Luke 14:23) - and I promise you, ever and always, that I will preach the Blood Atonement.  For

"The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin"
      (I John 1:7).

Solo Sung Before the Sermon by Mr. Benjamin Kincaid Griffith:

"The Old-Fashioned Way" (by Civilla D. Martin, 1866-1948).