How they led him forth we do not know. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? Great and worshipful being that he is, truth is to be altered for him, the gospel is to be modulated to suit the tone of his various generations, and all the arrangements of the universe are to be rendered subservient to his interests. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Add to Cart. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. 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. They are created in the minds of men. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of 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. 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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." 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. 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. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? 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. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. "Women, behold thy son!" Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. But how vast was the disparity! Remember how Paul said, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 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. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . NOTICE the connection, or you will miss the meaning of the words; for at first sight it looks as if our Saviour taught us that it John:6:29 The Marvellous Magnet 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." Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! This was the homage which the Son of God received from men; harmless and gentle, he came here with no purpose but that of doing good, and this is how mankind treated him. Justice must fly the field lest it be severe to so deserving a being; as for punishment, it must not be whispered to his ears polite. They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 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. good God! His great love makes him thirst to have us much nearer than we are; he will never be satisfied till all his redeemed are beyond gunshot of thee enemy. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! Ray Stedman 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." 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? There were two other cross-bearers in the throng; they were malefactors; their crosses were just as heavy as the Lord's, and yet, at least, one of them had no sympathy with him, and his bearing the cross only led to his death, and not to his salvation. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. are they not more like sharp vinegar? Romish expositors, who draw upon their prolific fancy for their facts, tell us that he had a rope about his neck with which they roughly dragged him to the tree; this is one of the most probable of their surmises, since it was not unusual for the Romans thus to conduct criminals to the gallows. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. 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. Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." 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." With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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 think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." Oh! The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. Either Christ must die for me, or else I must die for myself the second death; if he did not carry the curse for me, then on me must it rest for ever and ever. He is not allowed to worship with them. Can they be compared to generous wine? It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. 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. 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. 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! 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." 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. Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. 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? Think of that! "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. 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!". what a black thought crosses our mind! For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." 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. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. Oh! (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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? 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 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. 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." The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. 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. Thirst is a common-place misery, such as may happen to peasants or beggars; it is a real pain, and not a thing of a fancy or a nightmare of dreamland. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. away with him." 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. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. A phantom, as some have called him, could not suffer in his fashion: but Jesus really suffered, not only the more refined pains of delicate and sensitive minds, but the rougher and commoner pangs of flesh and blood. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. Dear fountain of delight unknown! 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! John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. 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." There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. The sorrow of these good women was a very proper sorrow; Jesus did not by any means forbid it, he only recommended another sorrow as being better; not finding fault with this, but still commending that. IV. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. If he carried all the cross, yet he only carried the wood of it; he did not bear the sin which made it such a load. 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. 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. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. May God deliver you! 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! 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. Today! Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. And what makes him love us so? There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. 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. You and I have nothing else to preach. Amen. The sinful find our conversation distasteful; in our pursuits the carnal have no interest; things dear to us are dross to worldlings, while things precious to them are contemptible to us. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. 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." O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? You young believers, who have lately followed Christ, should father and mother forsake you, remember you were bidden to reckon upon it; should brothers and sisters deride, you must put this down as part of the cost of being a Christian. 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? 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. That impenitent thief went from the cross of his great agony and it was agony indeed to die on a cross he went to that place, to the flames of hell; and you, too, may go from the bed of sickness, and from the abode of poverty, to perdition, quite as readily as from the home of ease and the house of plenty. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. III. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" 1. 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. III. 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. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. 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 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. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. "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. . "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". 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