Amen. Complain not, then. He is greatly to be commended and admired, for his sin is said to be seeking after God, and his superstition is a struggling after light. 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. 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. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." 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. Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. It is that he may eat and drink with you, for he promises that if we open to him he will enter in and sup with us and we with him. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Amid all the anguish of his spirit his last words prove him to have remained fully self-possessed, true to his forgiving nature, true to his kingly office, true to his filial relationship, true to his God, true to his love of the written word, true to his glorious work, and true to his faith in his Father. 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. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. 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 Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" 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. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. 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. 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? Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Oh! He knew once how to turn water into wine, and in matchless love he has often turned our sour drink-offerings into something sweet to himself, though in themselves, methinks, they have been the juice of sour grapes, sharp enough to set his teeth on edge. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. And they asked him, What then? . Remember that, and expect to suffer. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! It does not often happen that five or six thousand people meet together twice; it never does, I suppose; the scythe of death must cut some of you down before my voice shall warn you again! If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. How they led him forth we do not know. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. Have you repented of sin? There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. 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. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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. Go ye, then, like the Master, expecting to be abused, to wear an ill-name, and to earn reproach; go ye, like him, without the camp. 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?". III. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! The reed was no mere rush from the brook, it was of a stouter kind, of which easterns often make walkingstaves, the blows were cruel as well as insulting; and the crown was not of straw but thorn, hence it produced pain as well as pictured scorn. 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." 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? Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. Have you prayed for your fellow men? Let this mind be in you also. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! 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. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? He cried, ere he bowed the head which he had held erect amid all his conflict, as one who never yielded, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." One word: transformation. Perhaps, dear sister, you carry about with you a gnawing disease which eats at your heart, but Jesus took our sicknesses, and his cup was more bitter than yours. Let there be nothing but your religion to object to, and then if that offends them let them be offended, it is a cross which you must carry joyfully. 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. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. You may die so, you may die now. He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." 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. This hint only. 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." Ah, beloved, our Lord was so truly man that all our griefs remind us of him: the next time we are thirsty we may gaze upon him; and whenever we see a friend faint and thirsting while dying we may behold our Lord dimly, but truly, mirrored in his members. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. 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. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. 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. 1. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. He did not spare his Son the stripes. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. 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. He sipped of the vinegar, and he was refreshed, and no sooner has he thrown off the thirst than he shouted like a conqueror, "It is finished," and quitted the field, covered with renown. 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." And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? You are not, therefore, so poor as he. He who stood in our stead has finished all his work, and now his spirit comes back to the Father, and he brings us with him. He had no sooner said "I thirst," and sipped the vinegar, than he shouted, "It is finished"; and all was over: the battle was fought and the victory won for ever, and our great Deliverer's thirst was the sign of his having smitten the last foe. 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. A second mode of treating these seven cries is to view them as setting forth the person and offices of our Lord who uttered them. 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. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. You and I have nothing else to preach. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. I differ from them greatly, but I will say this, that next to the actual enjoyment of my Lord's presence I love to hunger and to thirst after him. The conquest of the appetites, the entire subjugation of the flesh, must be achieved, for before our great Exemplar said, "It is finished," wherein methinks he reached the greatest height of all, he stood as only upon the next lower step to that elevation, and said, "I thirst." Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? 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. He said, "I thirst," in order that one might bring him drink, even as you have wished to have a cooling draught handed to you when you could not help yourself. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. May God deliver you! Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. 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. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. 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. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. 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. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. 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. 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. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. One would wish to be as a spouse, who, when she had already been feasting in the banqueting-house, and had found his fruit sweet to her taste, so that she was overjoyed, yet cried out, "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love." As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. He calls for that: will you not give it to him? There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. I will give you one of his thirsty prayers "Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory." Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. Oh! The Church, the bride of Christ, was there conformed to the image of her Lord; she was there, I say, in Simon, bearing the cross, and in the women weeping and lamenting. Add to Cart. What joy, what satisfaotion this will give if we can sing, "My soul looks back to see The burden thou didst bear, When hastening to the accursed tree, And knows her guilt was there!". 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 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. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. 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. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. 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." Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. 1. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! Though bitter to him in the speaking it will be sweet to us in the hearing, so sweet that all the bitterness of our trials shall be forgotten as we remember the vinegar and gall of which he drank. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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. Oh! His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. 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. We ought not to forget the Jews. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. 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." Are you lukewarm? Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. Our Lord, however, endured thirst to an extreme degree, for it was the thirst of death which was upon him, and more, it was the thirst of one whose death was not a common one, for "he tasted death for every man." 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. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. He must love, it is his nature. Cover it with a cloak? Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. He hath traversed the mournful way before thee, and every footprint thou leavest in the sodden soil is stamped side by side with his footmarks. That little rising ground, which perhaps was called Golgotha, the place of a skull, from its somewhat resembling the crown of a man's skull, was the common place of execution. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? It is not fit that he should live." This is what the Apostle meant when he said, "I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church." You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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 . Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? Ray Stedman You carry the cross after him. John 19:28 . John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. Grant me only thus much of likeness: we have here a Prince with his bride, bearing his banner, and wearing his royal robes, traversing the streets of his own city, surrounded by a throng who shout aloud, and a multitude who gaze with interest profound. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. " And having said this, He breathed His last. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. Always was he in harmony with himself, and his own body was always expressive of his soul's cravings as well as of its own longings. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. Whether a disciple then or not, we have every reason to believe that he became so afterwards; he was the father, we read, of Alexander and Rufus, two persons who appear to have been well known in the early Church; let us hope that salvation came to his house when he was compelled to bear the Savior's cross. These solemn sentences have shone like the seven golden candlesticks or the seven stars of the Apocalypse, and have lighted multitudes of men to him who spake them. How has it been with you? Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. are they not more like sharp vinegar? There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. 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