In this sermon After His Passion, The word “passion” is used only this one time in the entire Bible. It sums up Jesus’ being despised and rejected by his own countrymen. Those unto whom he had come to save from their sins. The passion of Christ speaks of His painful, agonizing climb to the brow of Golgotha’s hill, carrying his cross. His passion tells of his being nailed to the cross by having iron spikes driven through his hands and feet. The story of "His passion" is the story of the purpose of his life. It is the supreme and culminating point. The one indispensable feature of his whole career; that to which everything led up, for which everything prepared, compared with which everything else was unimportant. Never, at any period of his ministry, did the Son of God so truly and so largely fulfill the mission on which he came, as when he was "putting away sin by the sacrifice of himself," as when he was betrayed and smitten and reviled, as when he was "lifted up" on the cross and "poured out his soul unto death." But all of that would have been of no account, meaningless, and in vain, had he not risen from the dead. We would be yet in our sins, with no hope beyond the grave.