Venia

Provided by: JesusFilm.org
Greenlit by Antoy Grant

Lanuage: ENGLISH
Length: 5 mins

A son nervously picks at some index cards in his hands. His father looks on expectantly. The son finally starts showing him the cards one by one. They each tell the story of a father who hurt him… and his mother.

The father tears up, affected by his son’s words. But the son writes something on a new card. Through tears, he holds up a card that says, “I forgive you.” He falls to his knees in front of his crying father. Words flash across the screen from a quote by a Virginia Tech victim days before she was shot.

“When deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. Forgiveness does not change the past. But it does enlarge the future.” -Mary Karen Read

The son waits to write the final notecard. Why do you think he waited?

Why do you think so many people experience broken relationships in life?

What does forgiveness do for us? Have you experienced forgiving or being forgiven that’s changed your life?

This short film is not intended to directly communicate the gospel, but to facilitate a conversation that reveals our need for the gospel. Think about how your own story and the stories of those with whom you may be watching connects with the story of the film and the story of Jesus.

The son tells the father every way the father has hurt him. Though they’re both hurting, he makes it clear that everything the father did wasn’t right and caused damage, or a separation, to form between them. Like the characters, God has made clear exactly how we’ve hurt Him by disobeying Him, not believing in Him, and not trusting Him This is called sin. And it hurts God. Our sin offends Him.

The father obviously feels guilty. He acknowledges each thing the son says and cries because he knows he did wrong things. Everything in this world is broken and imperfect. Even one wrong thing causes a separation between us and God. When we want to make amends with God, we have to acknowledge that our “sin” has hurt Him and offended Him.

Like the son in the short, God doesn’t want to be separated from us. He hasn’t given up on or walked away from us. He continues to stand by us. He loves us and wants a relationship with us.

But because God is just and right, He can’t just forgive everything we’ve done. A sacrifice had to be made. He sent Jesus to be our sinless, perfect sacrifice. Only through Him can our sins be forgiven.

The son in the film offers the father forgiveness. It’s a sacrifice. He’s setting himself aside and offering something to the father: grace. God does the same for us. He offers the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins and asks us to accept that grace. We can’t do anything to make up for what we’ve done, just like the father can’t really make up for what he did to his son. But he can accept the son’s forgiveness.

We can once again be in relationship with God if we confess that Jesus, the perfect, sinless sacrifice, is our Lord and Savior, and we turn from our sins back to a restored relationship with our Heavenly Father.

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La Liberté De L’Interieur-Freedom Within

Provided by: JesusFilmMedia.org
Greenlit by Antoy Grant

Lanuage: ENGLISH
Length: 5 mins

A man huddles in the gray of a window-less, door-less cube. Out of nowhere, he hears, “Freedom!” and a sign is shoved through a slit in the wall. He cautiously picks it up. It’s pointed on one end and reads: Freedom.

He stares at it for a moment, confused. A hand shoots through the slot, grabs the sign from him, turns the arrow downward, and hands it back to the man. Freedom is in the floor. The man tears up the carpet and finds a hatch. He reaches down, turning from gray to color. He gets rid of the carpet in his cell and lays down fresh grass instead. He lowers the dim light and finds pure light to shine in his cell. And last, he tears some tarnished wallpaper from the wall, reaches into the hole in the floor, and stretches the image of a beautiful outdoor scene over the wall.

It creates a door. He steps through, free from his cell, into the outdoors. The cell disintegrates. And the hole disappears. But the sign lies on the ground. He picks it up and starts to walk. Somewhere far away, someone yells, “Freedom!” The man runs toward it.

He finds a whole field of gray cells, still enclosed, each with an occupant. He smiles a little to himself, takes his sign, and runs toward the nearest one.

Who gives the man his freedom?

Why does he gladly help others gain their freedom?

What does it mean to truly be free? Have you experienced this kind of freedom?

This short film is not intended to directly communicate the gospel, but to facilitate a conversation that reveals our need for the gospel. An alternative way to read the title of this film is “Freedom from Within,” which means finding a way to be freed from yourself. Sometimes we recognize the need to be rescued from ourselves—from our hurts, habits and hang-ups. Like the man in the short, we need someone from the outside to invade our world and show us the way to freedom. God allows and wants people to know Him. As His followers, we have the honor and joy of telling others about His sacrifice and our own freedom. We get to be a part of setting others free.

But Jesus is the original liberator. He came from heaven to Earth to set us free. We need someone from the outside to enter into our world and rescue us. We need someone to set us free. Until we find freedom in Jesus, we’re separated from God and enslaved to the things in this world. “Sin,” or choosing our way above God’s, separates us from God. This is what we see in ourselves that we need to be rescued from. Jesus offers us a way to freedom and sets us free from all the things we regret.

Even more than that, He offers to become friends with us. We find that true freedom really comes when we are connected with Jesus in a personal relationship. To have this personal relationship, we must acknowledge that we are sinners and that our sin separates us from God. Like the man who couldn’t help himself in his own cell, there’s nothing we can do on our own to reach God. Only God’s son Jesus is able to bridge that gap for us through His death and resurrection. We must individually confess Jesus as our Savior and Lord in order to know God personally.

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Cabernet

Provided by: JesusFilmMedia.org
Greenlit by Antoy Grant

Lanuage: ENGLISH
Length: 7 mins

Brett waits nervously at a nice, upscale restaurant. When his waiter comes by the table, Brett tells him that he’s waiting on Michelle to arrive for their first date. The waiter offers wine, and later, Brett notices a stain.

The waiter tries to help Brett make a good impression by putting an extra set of fresh flowers on the table. Another waiter lets him know that the new owner will be visiting and everything must be completely perfect.

Brett tries to get the stain out in the bathroom but only makes it worse. He snatches a glass of white wine from his waiter and tries to work the stain out with that. Finally, the waiter offers a stain stick to him, a detergent to get the stain out, and rushes off to do his job well for the new owner. Brett thinks everything has been taken care of, but when he’s in the bathroom again, he sees the stain has come back.

He tries to resolve himself to the fact that he’ll just have to show up to the date with a stained shirt. But when he gets a glimpse of Michelle, he can’t bring himself to do it. The waiter sees him and pulls him aside. Brett sits down at the table with a fresh white shirt and makes a great impression. The waiter gives them menus and reveals in the kitchen that his own shirt is stained.

Why is it so important for Brett to get rid of the stain?

Why does Brett’s waiter exchange shirts with him?

Would you have switched shirts if you had been the waiter? How would you feel if someone helped you by switching shirts?

This short film is not intended to directly communicate the gospel, but to facilitate a conversation that reveals our need for the gospel. Think about how your own story and the stories of those you may be watching with connects with the story of the film and the story of Jesus.

Our lives, just like Brett’s shirt, have a stain. That stain is what the Bible calls sin. Sinning is something we all do, like when we’re selfish, envious, and hurtful to others. It’s when we choose to live life our own way and not the way God designed. Sin in our lives is what messes up our relationships and separates us from God.

Like Brett, no matter what we do to the stain (like trying to be a good person), it won’t go away. We need someone to give us a clean shirt. The only one with a clean shirt is God’s Son, Jesus.

The waiter changes shirts with Brett. It’s a sacrifice. He knows the new owner will be visiting the restaurant. He needs to make a really good impression, too. But he sacrifices his own image to help Brett. When Jesus died on the cross, He was giving us the opportunity to change shirts with Him, and have a renewed relationship withGod. But it was a sacrifice. He had done nothing wrong. He was already in complete relationship with God. But He sacrificed Himself for us so that we would be able to have a completely right relationship with God.

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