Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Sit at his feet with Mary, lean on his breast with John; yea, come with the spouse in the song and say, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine." Christ must die a felon's death, and it must be upon the felon's gallows, in the place where horrid crimes had met their due reward. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. Conceal your religion? The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. Yet, dear friends, to some eyes there will be more attraction in the procession of sorrow, of shame, and of blood, than in you display of grandeur and joy. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Are you lukewarm? Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. Complain not, then. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. I wonder he has ever received them, as one marvels why he received this vinegar; and yet he has received them, and smiled upon us for presenting them. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! It is said that a German regiment was at that time stationed in Judea, and I should not wonder if they were the lineal ancestors of those German theologians of modern times who have mocked the Savior, tampered with revelation, and cast the vile spittle of their philosophy into the face of truth. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." Yonder young Prince is ruddy with the bloom of early youth and health; my Master's visage is more marred than that of any man. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. I show unto you a more excellent way. 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." In the same song he speaks of his church, and says, "The roof of thy mouth is as the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. 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. From the sky the angels viewed him with wonder and amazement; the spirits of the just looked from the windows of heaven upon the scene, yea, the great God and Father watched each movement of his suffering Son. 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. Your heir of royalty is magnificently drawn along the streets in his stately chariot, sitting at his ease: my princely sufferer walks with weary feet, marking the road with crimson drops; not borne, but bearing; not carried, but carrying his cross. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. Amen. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. Our great hero, the destroyer of Death, bearded the lion in his den, slew the monster in his own castle, and dragged the dragon captive from his own den. why hast thou forsaken me?" His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. This is a kind of sweet whereof if a man hath much he must have more, and when he hath more he is under a still greater necessity to receive more, and so on, his appetite for ever growing by that which it feeds upon, till he is filled with all the fulness of God. While thus we admire his condescension let our thoughts also turn with delight to his sure sympathy: for if Jesus said, "I thirst," then he knows all our frailties and woes. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. We are in the world, but we must never be of it; we are not to be secluded like monks in the cloister, but we are to be separated like Jews among Gentiles; men, but not of men; helping, aiding, befriending, teaching, comforting, instructing, but not sinning either to escape a frown or to win a smile. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. 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. ", When a brother makes confession of his transgressions, when on his knees before God he humbles himself with many tears, I am sure the Lord thinks far more of the tears of repentance than he would do of the mere drops of human sympathy. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. More solemn still is the reflection that according to our Lord's own teaching, thirst will also be the eternal result of sin, for he says concerning the rich glutton, "In hell he lift up his eyes, being in torment," and his prayer, which was denied him, was, "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. Some of you will! 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. Our sinful tongues, blistered by the fever of passion, must have burned for ever had not his tongue been tormented with thirst in our stead. 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? Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." The most careless eye discerns it. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. The nails were fastened in the most sensitive parts of the body, and the wounds were widened as the weight of his body dragged the nails through his blessed flesh, and tore his tender nerves. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." Angels cannot suffer thirst. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? Now recollect, if Jesus had not thirsted, every one of us would have thirsted for ever afar off from God, with an impassable gulf between us and heaven. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. His wounds unstaunched and raw, fresh bleeding from beneath the lash, would make this scarlet robe adhere to him, and when it was dragged off; his gashes would bleed anew. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. " And having said this, He breathed His last. Barrabas may go free; the thief and the murderer may be spared; but for Christ there is no word, but "Away with such a fellow from the earth! May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? And now, brethren, our blessed Lord has at this time a thirst for communion with each one of you who are his people, not because you can do him good, but because he can do you good. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! Yet his language teaches us not to worship her, for he calls her "woman," but to honor him in whom his direst agony thought of her needs and griefs, as he also thinks of all his people, for these are his mother and sister and brother. 19:1-18 Little did Pilate think with what holy regard these sufferings of Christ would, in after-ages, be thought upon and spoken of by the best and greatest of men. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Weep not for him, but for these. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. What knocks he for? There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. 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." They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. 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. In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! 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. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. And they asked him, What then? Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. There were, as you know, seven of those last words, and seven is the number of perfection and fulness; the number which blends the three of the infinite God with the four of complete creation. John 19:3. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you; then remember, it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus? Dear friend, if you think that you suffer all that a Christian can suffer; if all God's billows roll over you, yet, remember, there is not one drop of wrath in all your sea of sorrow. Among other things methinks he meant this "If I, the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself the dry tree whose sins are his own, and not merely imputed to him, shall fall into the hands of an angry God." To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. There is a fulness of meaning in each utterance which no man shall be able fully to bring forth, and when combined they make up a vast deep of thought, which no human line can fathom. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. 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 . Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. "I thirst" is the fifth cry, and its utterance teaches us the truth of Scripture, for all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, and therefore our Lord said, "I thirst." But how vast was the disparity! The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. High in the air ye bid your banners wave about the heir of England's throne, but how shall ye rival the banner of the sacred cross, that day for the first time borne among the sons of men. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. 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. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." John 19:7-8. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the highest place. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" points to the anguish of his soul; "I thirst" expresses in part the torture of his body; and they were both needful, because it is written of the God of justice that he is "able to destroy both soul and body in hell," and the pangs that are due to law are of both kinds, touching both heart and flesh. The ceremonial of the Jewish religion denies him any participation in its pomps; the priests condemn him never again to tread the hallowed floors, never again to look upon the consecrated altars in the place of his people's worship. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. 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. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! You are not, therefore, so poor as he. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. 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. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." If he was so poor that his garments were stripped from him, and he was hung up upon the tree, penniless and friendless, hungering and thirsting, will you henceforth groan and murmur because you bear the yoke of poverty and want? The most Scriptural way to describe the sufferings of Christ is not by laboring to excite sympathy through highly-coloured descriptions of his blood and wounds. IV. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! Oh! Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . He is not allowed to worship with them. 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? One word: transformation. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. who would stand in your place, ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners who would stand in your place when God shall say, "Awake O sword against the rebel, against the man that rejected me; smite him, and let him feel the smart for ever!" The sharpness of that sentence no exposition can fully disclose to us: it is keen as the very edge and point of the sword which pierced his heart. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Thus have I tried to spy out a measure of teaching, by using that one glass for the soul's eye, through which we look upon "I thirst" as the ensign of his true humanity. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings Ray Stedman He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. Some of them have no objection to worship with a poor congregation till they grow rich, and then, forsooth, they must go with the world's church, to mingle with fashion and gentility. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. But further, my brethren; this, I think, is the great lesson from Christ's being slaughtered without the gate of the city let us go forth, therefore, without the camp, bearing his reproach. good God! Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? 36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"[ a] 37 and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."[ b] Read full chapter Footnotes See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. Christ does exempt you from sin, but not from sorrow; he does take the curse of the cross, but he does not take the cross of the curse away from you. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. 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." Dear friends, we must remember that, although no one died on the cross with Christ, for atonement must be executed by a solitary Savior, yet another person did carry the cross for Christ; for this world, while redeemed by price by Christ, and by Christ alone, is to be redeemed by divine power manifested in the sufferings and labors of the saints as well as those of Christ. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. Separately or in connection our Master's words overflow with instruction to thoughtful minds: but of all save one I must say, "Of which we cannot now speak particularly." He ran and filled a sponge with vinegar: it was the best way he knew of putting a few drops of moisture to the lips of one who was suffering so much; but though he felt a degree of pity, it was such as one might show to a dog; he felt no reverence, but mocked as he relieved. And yet he placed himself for our sakes into a position of shame and suffering where none would wait upon him, but when he cried, "I thirst," they gave him vinegar to drink. III. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. 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. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. We should love the cross, and count it very dear, because it works out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 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. And yet again in the eighth chapter the bride saith, "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. It is done. Jesus is formally condemned to crucifixion, but before he is led away he is given over to the Praetorian guards that those rough legionaries may insult him. 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. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. Brother, thirst to have your children save. I know he loves to receive from you, because he delights even in a cup of cold water that you give to one of his disciples; how much more will he delight in the giving of your whole self to him? Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. Like the steps of a ladder or the links of a golden chain, there is a mutual dependence and interlinking of each of the cries, so that one leads to another and that to a third. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. 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