Where is Our Shame Today?
Included in this audio sermon are a few of my pastoral thoughts on the movie Passion of the Christ!
"Live" Real Audio Sermon

During the sermon itself, there is some time that I spend at the beginning making comments about the movie and showing a few slide pictures I have of when I drove some JH students to a Catholic Shrine in Montreal, Canada.

Official comments sent to the news media concerning the movie Passion of the Christ

Eventually I finally get into the sermon, with the following as a general outline.


Isaiah 52:14
I John 2:21,22
Hebrews 6:6
Hebrews 12:2
John 15:11
John 17:13

Then we visit Ezra 9:1-15 or so and see how Ezra was totally shamed - over his head, etc.
On to Jeremiah 6:15 and 8:12 where we see that the people are NOT ashamed - they don't even blush!  That is how we are today in our Laodicean Era - we have very little that shames us anymore these days.


We look at the following verses to see:
What We Are NOT to be Ashamed Of!
Romans 1:6 - the gospel of Christ!
Romans 10:11 - Believing on the 'real' Christ!
I Corinthians 4:14 - The affect of a sermon on us!
II Corinthians 10:8 - a preacher preahing what he has to preach!
II Timothy 1:8 - The Word of God - Jesus Christ's Testimony!
II Timothy 1:12 - Suffering as a Christian!
II Timothy 2:15 - Studying to be able Rightly Divide the Bible!

In order to be a partaker of His sufferings, we must:
I..  Crucify the Old Man; Crucify the Flesh!
Romans 6:6
Romans 12:2
Galatians 2:20
Galatians 5:24

II.  Crucify the World
Galatians 6:14
Romans 12:1-3


Where is Our Shame Today?
Romans 1:16; 10:11

1.  Acts 5:41; II Timothy 2:12
It is a shame that we won't suffer for his name today!

2.  I Corinthians 6:1-8
It is a shame that we can't get along with the brethren over 'rubbish.'  Why can't folks just accept be labled as the 'wrong one' even when they are not?  Why must we go to the unsaved - to the lawyers - to get our differences resolved?  That is a shame when we won't allow ourselves to be defrauded!  It works the same way in a household with brothers and sisters, too - ha, even sometimes among the husband and wife, eh!

3.  I Corinthians 11:6
Short hair on women is a shame!  Why are we not shamed these days?

4.  I Corinthians 11:14
Long hair on men is a shame!  Why are we not shamed these days?

5.  I Corinthians 15:33,34; II Timothy 2:15
No knowledge of God being taught to the unlearned by those who HAVE the knowledge of God!  That is a shame!

6.  Ephesians 5:12
Talking about things done in secret is a shame.  Our humor and conversations get pretty 'low' at times.  There ought to be the phrase, "We don't talk about that in public!"

Overall, the sermon dealt with shame and the movie portraying Christ's shame is not something a serious Christian would attend.  Why would we want to see our Saviour shamed again?  Once was enough!

Click here for my 'official' pastoral position on the movie The Passion of the Christ!