We are not sure that Simon was a disciple of Christ; he may have been a friendly spectator; yet one would think the Jews would naturally select a disciple if they could. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. 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. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? Oh! He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? Our religion is our glory; the Cross of Christ is our honor, and, while not ostentatiously parading it, as the Pharisees do, we ought never to be so cowardly as to conceal it. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Will your Prince be decorated with honors? I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. 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." See how man at his best mingles admiration of the Saviour's person with scorn of his claims; writing books to hold him up as an example and at the same moment rejecting his deity; admitting that he was a wonderful man, but denying his most sacred mission; extolling his ethical teaching and then trampling on his blood: thus giving him drink, but that drink vinegar. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. "I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." Oh! But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? The power to suffer for another, the capacity to be self-denying even to an extreme to accomplish some great work for God this is a thing to be sought after, and must be gained before our work is done, and in this Jesus is before us our example and our strength. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. 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 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. How has it been with you? He is not allowed to worship with them. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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. 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 preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. 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? Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? What doth he say? 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. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. 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. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. Have you prayed for your fellow men? It is not fit that he should live." (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. Today! 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. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. 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. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. In the multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. 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? You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. " And having said this, He breathed His last. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. And yet, though he was Lord of all he had so fully taken upon himself the form of a servant and was so perfectly made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that he cried with fainting voice, "I thirst." and the answer shall come back, "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. 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. 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. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. 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." "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. III. We do not thirst after the old manner wherein we were bitterly afflicted, for he hath said, "He that drinketh of this water shall never thirst:" but now we covet a new thirst. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? 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. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 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 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. If we weep for the sufferings of Christ in the same way as we lament the sufferings of another man, our emotions will be only natural, and may work no good. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. 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. You may die so, you may die now. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. 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. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? You and I have nothing else to preach. When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples over the Brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. A river of the water of life, pure as crystal, proceedeth to-day out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and yet once he condescended to say, "I thirst," before his angelic guards, they would surely have emulated the courage of the men of David when they cut their way to the well of Bethlehem that was within the gate, and drew water in jeopardy of their lives. Weep not for him, but for these. 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. "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.". The great Surety says, "I thirst," because he is placed in the sinner's stead, and he must therefore undergo the penalty of sin for the ungodly. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. 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!" "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? 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." With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. 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. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. What knocks he for? He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. 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." Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! 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. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! He must love, it is his nature. 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. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. What whips of steel for you, what knots of burning wire for you, when conscience shall smite you, when the law shall scourge you with its ten-thonged whip! I show unto you a more excellent way. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. And they asked him, What then? 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." 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. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. 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. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! 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. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. II. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? O brother, if he says, "I thirst" and you bring him a lukewarm heart, that is worse than vinegar, for he has said, "I will spue thee out of my mouth." Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Conceal your religion? . "Women, behold thy son!" I cannot say that it is short and sweet, for, alas, it was bitterness itself to our Lord Jesus; and yet out of its bitterness I trust there will come great sweetness to us. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" Some of you will! After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. 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. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. 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. 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. 1. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? The most careless eye discerns it. 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. If not, bestir yourselves at once. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. John 19:16 . " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. good God! Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Oh! "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." "It is finished" is the last word but one, and there you see the perfected Saviour, the Captain of our salvation, who has completed the undertaking upon which he had entered, finished transgression, made an end of sin, and brought in ever lasting righteousness. "Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in paradise" this is the Lord Jesus in kingly power, opening with the key of David a door which none can shut, admitting into the gates of heaven the poor soul who had confessed him on the tree. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . But how vast was the disparity! Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name by complete conformity to his will. 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. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? what a black thought crosses our mind! He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. 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. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. 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