Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? The Real Passion of Christ!

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

How many times have you said the same thing, how many times have you felt that you were all alone, How many times have you felt that no one cares? Everyone knows the television and movie version of the Passion of the Christ, but did you know that it was more than what they were showing? Men have been trying for centuries, to make money off the suffering of others, the same is true about Jesus and His Crucifiction.

Most of the Biblical accounts in the movies are just a conglomeration of what they believed happened or they spice it up with fairy tales to get more people to watch them. These are seducing spirits that have only one agenda, To confuse.

One good example is the movie, Noahs Arc, this was pure fantasy and very little was based on Biblical facts. Mel Gipsons,The passion of the Christ. was made for moneys sake, it too was with errors. The television show,The Book of Daniel. a farse and a belittlement of the true Book.

A Passion is a devotion to, or interest in, a cause or subject, strong, enthusiastic devotion to an ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance: Pain and suffering was the way of our Saviour. The passion of the Christ was about the death of a Messiah, but the passion was also about what was and what was to come. What was to come? The pain and suffering of His followers, which came with a diligence in the furtherance of the Gospel. This also was the Passion, men and women that did, and would love Jesus, even unto death itself.

Jesus stayed on the cross because he was given a vision. A vision, a window, a door, a look into the future, of the suffering and love that many would find in His name. A vision that would aid Him in dealing with the pain and shame that He was to endure. This vision was also part of the passion.

We see this in Hebrews 12:2, Paul states; Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ( The beginning and the end.); who for the joy (The reason, the purpose, the end. my delights were with the sons of men.) that was set before him ( The vision of a unified Church under one name. His.

Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and Church of the Firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, ) endured the cross (Suffering, pain.), despising ( To regard as unworthy of one's interest or concern

the shame (Dishonor), and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Many say that this last sentence is denoting Jesus setting down on Gods Hand, which is totally wrong. Christ has His Throne to set upon, as stated in Matthew 20:20-23; Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

They say unto him, We are able. And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

The Passion of Christ was just a beginning of it, the furtherance of the Gospel was the continuation. The pain and suffering of many to come, then, today and into the future. The Crucifiction of Christ was pre-ordained by God, before the foundation of the world, there was nothing that could have been done to stop it.

Matthew 17:11- 13 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. John the Baptist with the spirit of Elias, preached a true doctrine that would leed many back to the Holiness of the truth in Scripture and prepare them for the coming of the Messiah.

The Passion of the Christ was then truly, not the crucifiction, but the life, before and after, of the Christ.Proverbs 8:22-35 proves this. His passion was His love for the Father, The Truth and Mankind. The Passion of Christ was His, strong enthusiastic devotion to His Father and to His Fathers will. We see that again with the disciples and beyond. Even in todays wicked world of sin and corruption, there are men and women, around the world, seeking souls for the Father and being beaten and killed for their testimony of this passion.

So when did this passion come about?

In John 1:1, we see the beginning; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Proverbs 8:22-35; The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. Jesus was the Passion of His Father and mankind was the Passion of Jesus, before the foundation of the earth.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. All of this is speeking of Jesus and His passion.

(Mar-9:11-13; Mat-17:11-13, Mat-27:47-49)