Nor is this all. I saw the other day the emblem of a serpent with its tail in its mouth, and if I carry it a little beyond the artist's intention the symbol may set forth appetite swallowing up itself. Can they be compared to generous wine? Oh! By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. 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." No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. 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. 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. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. Even if I may not come at him, yet shall I be full of consolation, for it is heaven to thirst after him, and surely he will never deny a poor soul liberty to admire him, and adore him, and thirst after him." Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. ", 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. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. 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." 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. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. 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? How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. It is the way whereby many shall be brought to Christ, when this blessed soul-thirst of true Christian charity shall be upon those who are themselves saved. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the sins of the people, so that if they were sought for, they could not be found. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! O thou blessed Master, if we are indeed nailed up to the tree with thee, give us a thirst after thee with a thirst which only the cup of "the new covenant in thy blood" can ever satisfy. The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! So he was thirsting then. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? 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. "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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Romanists pretend to know; in fact they know the very spot where Veronica wiped the blessed face with her handkerchief, and found his likeness impressed upon it; we also know very well where that was not done; in fact they know the very spot where Jesus fainted, and if you go to Jerusalem you can see all these different places if you only carry enough credulity with you; but the fact is the city has been so razed, and burned, and ploughed, that there is little chance of distinguishing any of these positions, with the exception, it may be, of Mount Calvary, which being outside the walls may possibly still remain. 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? The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. Today! 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. 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. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. Inductive Bible study on John 19. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. 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. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. IV. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. 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." John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. 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. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. 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. Oh! "Deliver him to the tormentors," was the word of the king in the parable; it shall be fulfilled to you "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." 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. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. But my Prince is hated without a cause. They are created in the minds of men. 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. Oh! 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! I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Amen. Even when man compassionates the sufferings of Christ, and man would have ceased to be human if he did not, still he scorns him; the very cup which man gives to Jesus is at once scorn and pity, for "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." Oh! Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. IV. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. 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. crucify him!" Jesus is therefore hunted out of the city, beyond the gate, with the will and force of his oven nation, but he journeys not against his own will; even as the lamb goeth as willingly to the shambles as to the meadow, so doth Christ cheerfully take up his cross and go without the camp. 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. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com " And having said this, He breathed His last. 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. 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." We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. 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. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. How they led him forth we do not know. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? 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. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. good God! 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 shalt thou be with me in paradise." Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. 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." 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. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. 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. "I reckon that these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." If not, bestir yourselves at once. The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal experience of it. Think, dear friends, there are some in this congregation who as yet have no interest in Jesu's blood, some sitting next to you, your nearest friends who, if they were now to close their eyes in death, would open them in hell! 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. 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. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." We may well remember our faults this day. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. 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? All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. 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." Oh! The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Let us exult as we see our Substitute going through with his work even to the bitter end, and then with a "Consummatum est" returning to his Father, God. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! How has it been with you? 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. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. 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. 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 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. 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. 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