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That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. What knocks he for? The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our Master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians the world would more heartily detest us, and if we would cleave more closely to Christ we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favor from men. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. So numerous has the family of man now become, that there is a death every second; and when we know how very smell a proportion of the human race have even nominally received the cross and there is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved oh! Some of these were persons of considerable rank; many of them had ministered to him of their substance; amidst the din and howling of the crowd, and the noise of the soldiery, they raised an exceeding loud and bitter cry, like Rachel weeping for her children, who would not be comforted, because they were not. This very plainly sets forth the true and proper humanity of Christ, who to the end recognised his human relationship to Mary, of whom he was born. John 19:1-16 - Glory Mocked and Condemned John 19:17-30 - Glory Crucified John 19:31-42 - Glory Buried A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. Dear fountain of delight unknown! I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? I cannot give you more than a mere taste of this rich subject, but I have been most struck with two ways of regarding our Lord's last words. Have you prayed for your fellow men? You young believers, who have lately followed Christ, should father and mother forsake you, remember you were bidden to reckon upon it; should brothers and sisters deride, you must put this down as part of the cost of being a Christian. Come to him in prayer, come to him in fellowship, come to him by perfect consecration, come to him by surrendering your whole being to the sweet mysterious influences of his Spirit. One would have said, If he were thirsty he would not tell us, for all the clouds and rains would be glad to refresh his brow, and the brooks and streams would joyously flow at his feet. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." He saw its streets flowing like bloody rivers; he saw the temple naming up to heaven; he marked the walls loaded with Jewish captives crucified by command of Titus; he saw the city razed to the ground and sown with salt, and he said, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children, for the day shall come when ye shall say to the rocks, Hide us, and to the mountains, Fall upon us." But such is not the truthful estimate of man according to the Scriptures: there man is a fallen creature, with a carnal mind which cannot be reconciled to God; a worse than brutish creature, rendering evil for good, and treating his God with vile ingratitude. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. Those once highly favored people of God who cursed themselves with, "His blood be upon us and upon our children," ought to make us mourn when we think of their present degradation. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? Thirst is a common-place misery, such as may happen to peasants or beggars; it is a real pain, and not a thing of a fancy or a nightmare of dreamland. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. Christ did but transfer to Simon the outward frame, the mere tree; but the curse of the tree, which was our sin and its punishment, rested on Jesus' shoulders still. III. Nor dost thou set a time for waiting, but instantly thou dost set wide the gate of pearl; thou hast all power in heaven as well as upon earth. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? No blood but that which He has spilt, no groans but those which came from His heart, no suffering but that which was endured by Him, can ever make a recompense for sin. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. There were two other cross-bearers in the throng; they were malefactors; their crosses were just as heavy as the Lord's, and yet, at least, one of them had no sympathy with him, and his bearing the cross only led to his death, and not to his salvation. Oh! For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" here we see the Mediator interceding: Jesus standing before the Father pleading for the guilty. Here we behold his human soul in anguish, his inmost heart overwhelmed by the withdrawing of Jehovah's face, and made to cry out as if in perplexity and amazement. Jesus took the wrath; Jesus carried the sin; and now all that you endure is but for his sake, that you may be conformed unto his image, and may aid in gathering his people into his family. The "I thirst" was the bearing of the last pang; what if I say it was the expression of the fact that his pangs had at last begun to cease, and their fury had spent itself, and left him able to note his lessor pains? Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." Amen. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. I like to think of our Lord's saying, "It is finished," directly after he had exclaimed, "I thirst"; for these two voices come so naturally together. We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. Godly working-men, should your employers or your fellow-workers frown upon you; wives, should your husbands threaten to cast you out, remember, without the camp was Jesus' place, and without the camp is yours. There was a deeper meaning in his words than she dreamed of, as a verse further down fully proves, when he said to his disciples, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." "We, whose proneness to forget Thy dear love, on Olivet Bathed thy brow with bloody sweat; "We whose sins, with awful power, Like a cloud did o'er thee lower, In that God-excluding hour; "We, who still, in thought and dead, Often hold the bitter reed To thee, in thy time of need.". He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). It came from the parched lips of the Divine Victim towards the close of his agony, and after the darkness which endured from the sixth to the ninth hour. Then thy sin lies not on thee; not one single ounce or drachma of it lies on thee; it has all been transferred by blessed imputation to Christ, and he bears it on his shoulder in the form of yonder heavy cross. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. A carnal appetite of the body, the satisfaction of the desire for food, first brought us down under the first Adam, and now the pang of thirst, the denial of what the body craved for, restores us to our place. Either Christ must die for me, or else I must die for myself the second death; if he did not carry the curse for me, then on me must it rest for ever and ever. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. You may sit under a sermon, and feel a great deal, but your feeling is worthless unless it leads you to weep for yourselves and for your children. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. Our text is the shortest of all the words of Calvary; it stands as two words in our language "I thirst," but in the Greek it is only one. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . What if the bread be dry, what if the medicine be nauseous; yet for his thirst there was no relief but gall and vinegar, and dare we complain? why hast thou forsaken me?" It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . Our Lord says, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink," that thirst being the result of sin in every ungodly man at this moment. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. Come hither, ye lovers of Immanuel, and I will show you this great sight the King of sorrow marching to his throne of grief, the cross. Our Lord felt that grievous drought of dissolution by which all moisture seems dried up, and the flesh returns to the dust of death: this those know who have commenced to tread the valley of the shadow of death. Christ comes forth from Pilate's hall with the cumbrous wood upon his shoulder, but through weariness he travels slowly, and his enemies urgent for his death, and half afraid, from his emaciated appearance, that he may die before he reaches the place of execution, allow another to carry his burden. It was pain that dried his mouth and made it like an oven, till he declared, in the language of the twenty-second psalm, "My tongue cleaveth to my jaws." How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. I have sometimes met with persons who have suffered much; they have lost money, they have worked hard all their lives, or they have laid for years upon a bed of sickness, and they therefore suppose that because they have suffered so much in this life, they shall thus escape the punishment of sin hereafter. away with him." is the fourth cry, and it illustrates the penalty endured by our Substitute when he bore our sins, and so was forsaken of his God. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. Some of those whom we loved very dearly we have seen quite unable to help themselves; the death sweat has been upon them, and this has been one of the marks of their approaching dissolution, that they have been parched with thirst, and could only mutter between their half-closed lips, "Give me to drink." . They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. 29. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". John 19:16 . July 2nd, 1882 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:26 . Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." John 19:16 . He thirsted to pluck us from between the jaws of hell, to pay our redemption price, and set us free from the eternal condemnation which hung over us; and when on the cross the work was almost done his thirst was not assuaged, and could not be till he could say, "It is finished." (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? He is exiled from their friendship, too. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! Weep not for him, but for these. the people saw him in the street, not arrayed in the purple robe, but wearing his garment without seam, woven from the top throughout, the common smock-frock, in fact, of the countrymen of Palestine, and they said at once, "Yes, 'tis he, the man who healed the sick, and raised the dead; the mighty teacher who was wont to sit upon the mountain-top, or stand in the temple courts and preach with authority, and not as the Scribes." " And having said this, He breathed His last. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? Beloved, let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. Some of us, indeed, confess that, if we had read this narrative of suffering in a romance, we should have wept copiously, but the story of Christ's sufferings does not cause the excitement and emotion one would expect. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. The Via Dolorosa, as the Romanists call it, is a long street at the present time, but it may have been but a few yards. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. I tell you, sirs, that yonder malefactor carried his cross and died on it; and you will carry your sorrows, and be damned with them, except you repent. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. This was the homage which the Son of God received from men; harmless and gentle, he came here with no purpose but that of doing good, and this is how mankind treated him. So he was thirsting then. He thirsted for water doubtless, but his soul was thirsty in a higher sense; indeed, he seems only to have spoken that the Scriptures might be fulfilled as to the offering him vinegar. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . Remember that, and expect to suffer. It was, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!" Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. ye unregenerate men and women, and there are not a few such here now, remember that when God saw Christ in the sinner's place he did not spare him, and when he finds you without Christ, he will not spare you. ye Christian men, who dream of trimming your sails to the wind, who seek to win the world's favor, I do beseech you cease from a course so perilous. The more manifestly there shall be a great gulf between the Church and the world, the better shall it be for both; the better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned; the better for the Church, for it shall be thereby preserved. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. You may think that this remark is not needed; but I have met with one or two cases where it was required; and I have often said I would preach a sermon for even one person, and, therefore, I make this remark, even though it should rebuke but one. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. Lectures to My Students - Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1889 Lessons from the Apostle Paul's Prayers - Charles Spurgeon 2018-02-19 Why study and pray the prayers of the Apostle Paul? It is not fit that he should live." Henceforth, also, let us cultivate the spirit of resignation, for we may well rejoice to carry a cross which his shoulders have borne before us. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. V. I close with THE SAVIOR'S WARNING QUESTION "If they do these things in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?". In your chamber let the gasp of your Lord as he said, "I thirst," go through your ears, and as you hear it let it touch your heart and cause you to gird up yourself and say, "Doth he say, 'I thirst'? There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. They prefer a ceremonial pompous and gaudy; the swell of music, the glitter of costly garments, the parade of learning all these must minister grandeur to the world's religion, and thus shut out the simple followers of the Lamb. The whole universe shall hiss you; angels shall be ashamed of you; your own friends, yes, your sainted mother, shall say "Amen" to your condemnation; and those who loved you best shall sit as assessors with Christ to judge you and condemn you! Let me add, that when we look at the sufferings of Christ, we ought to sorrow deeply for the souls of all unregenerate men and women. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. You may die so, you may die now. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" IV. What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? They put on him his own clothes that the multitudes might discern him to be the same man, the very man who had professed to be the Messias. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, they cannot spare him the agonies of dying on the cross, they will therefore remit the labor of carrying it. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. Oh! "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." A few times the sun will go up and down the hill; a few more moons will wax and wane, and then we shall receive the glory. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? 1. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. Oh! 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . He believed, as a Roman in gods many. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Romanists of all ages have wrought upon the feelings of the people in this manner, and to a degree the attempt is commendable, but if it shall all end in tears of pity, no good is done. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. He is not allowed to worship with them. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. They would be very proper, very proper; God forbid that we should stay them, except with the gentle words of Christ, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me." Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? Nor does the grief end here, for have not the best works we have ever done, and the best feelings we ever felt, and the best prayers we have ever offered, been tart and sour with sin? Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com I pray you, lend your ears to such faint words as I can utter on a subject all too high for me, the march of the world's Maker along the way of his great sorrow; your Redeemer traversing the rugged path of suffering, along which he went with heaving heart and heavy footsteps, that he might pave a royal road of mercy for his enemies. Next time your fevered lips murmur "I am very thirsty," you may say to yourself, "Those are sacred words, for my Lord spake in that fashion." Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. Have you repented of sin? While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. crucify him!" How they led him forth we do not know. When our Lord cried, "Eloi, Eloi," and afterwards said, "I thirst," the persons around the cross said, "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him," mocking him; and, according to Mark, he who gave the vinegar uttered much the same words. This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? This cross was a ponderous machine; not so heavy, perhaps, as some pictures would represent it, but still no light burden to a man whose shoulders were raw with the lashes of the Roman scourge. They put his own clothes upon him, because they were the perquisites of the executioner, as modern hangmen take the garments of those whom they execute, so did the four soldiers claim a right to his raiment. January 1, 1970 A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." John vi. Thoughtful men have drawn a wealth of meaning from them, and in so doing have arranged them into different groups, and placed them under several heads. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." John 19:30. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. NOTICE the connection, or you will miss the meaning of the words; for at first sight it looks as if our Saviour taught us that it John:6:29 The Marvellous Magnet Usually the crier went before with an announcement such as this, "This is Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, who for making himself a King, and stirring up the people, has been condemned to die." Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings The most careless eye discerns it. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. 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