John 19:16 . My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. is the fourth cry, and it illustrates the penalty endured by our Substitute when he bore our sins, and so was forsaken of his God. Some of these were persons of considerable rank; many of them had ministered to him of their substance; amidst the din and howling of the crowd, and the noise of the soldiery, they raised an exceeding loud and bitter cry, like Rachel weeping for her children, who would not be comforted, because they were not. Oh! 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. You do suffer. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? 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." So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Have you prayed for your fellow men? The platted crown of thorns, the purple robe, the reed with which they smote him, and the spittle with which they disfigured him, all these marked the contempt in which they held the King of the Jews. 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." Amen. 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. good God! We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. Conceal your religion? 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." Oh! For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. Once again, as we think of this "I thirst," which proves our Lord's humanity, let us resolve to shun no denials, but rather court them that we may be conformed to his image. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. You may think that this remark is not needed; but I have met with one or two cases where it was required; and I have often said I would preach a sermon for even one person, and, therefore, I make this remark, even though it should rebuke but one. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. you that are ashamed of Christ, how can you read that text, "He that is ashamed of me, and of my words, of him will I be ashamed when I come in the glory of my Father, and all my holy angels with me." How has it been with you? And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. He calls for that: will you not give it to him? Here we behold his human soul in anguish, his inmost heart overwhelmed by the withdrawing of Jehovah's face, and made to cry out as if in perplexity and amazement. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. 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! Cover it with a cloak? I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. ", 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. 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. Christ comes forth from Pilate's hall with the cumbrous wood upon his shoulder, but through weariness he travels slowly, and his enemies urgent for his death, and half afraid, from his emaciated appearance, that he may die before he reaches the place of execution, allow another to carry his burden. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. 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." 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. It was pain that dried his mouth and made it like an oven, till he declared, in the language of the twenty-second psalm, "My tongue cleaveth to my jaws." Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. C.H. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? 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. 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." Think of the millions in this dark world! How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. Conservative, but not too much depth. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). 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. 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. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. He poureth out the streams that run among the hills, the torrents which rush adown the mountains, and the flowing rivers which enrich the plains. 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." You and I have nothing else to preach. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? 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. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. He thirsts to bless you and to receive your grateful love in return; he thirsts to see you looking with believing eye to his fulness, and holding out your emptiness that he may supply it. Oh! 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. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? 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. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. 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. 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. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings Brother, thirst to have your children save. 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!" Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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." But how vast was the disparity! Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? 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. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? 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. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. I. IV. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid: It shows he was afraid all along the coward the vacillating coward and now a fresh superstition seizes upon him. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. Oh! Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. "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." John 19:7-8. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. Come to him in prayer, come to him in fellowship, come to him by perfect consecration, come to him by surrendering your whole being to the sweet mysterious influences of his Spirit. 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. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. And they asked him, What then? This hint only. 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. A Christian living to indulge the base appetites of a brute beast, to eat and to drink almost to gluttony and drunkenness, is utterly unworthy of the name. 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. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. 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." It was the common place of death. 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." We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. 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. 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. 1. All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. souls, I do beseech you, by the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the curse; do not bear in your own persons the awful wrath to come! III. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. "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.". Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. 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. Let patience have her perfect work. 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. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. A carnal appetite of the body, the satisfaction of the desire for food, first brought us down under the first Adam, and now the pang of thirst, the denial of what the body craved for, restores us to our place. Methinks Death thought it a splendid triumph when he saw the Master impaled and bleeding in the dominions of destruction; little did he know that the grave was to be rifled, and himself destroyed, by that crucified Son of man. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. 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. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. I fear me, beloved, I fear me that the most of us if we ever do carry it, carry it by compulsion, at least when it first comes on to our shoulders we do not like it, and would fain run from it, but the world compels us to bear Christ's cross. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. Oh! "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. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". Scripture provides a wealth . This added to his shame; but, methinks, in this, too, he draws the nearer to us, "He was numbered with the transgressors, and bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." 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. 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." 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 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. 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. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. 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! As he commends his spirit into the Father's hand, so does he bring all believers nigh to God, and henceforth we are in the hand of the Father, who is greater than all, and none shall pluck us thence. 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. 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 19:11) Jesus answered, . Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. Ray Stedman Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). And said, Hail, King of the Jews! There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. 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. 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? Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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." There was nothing behind in the price, but there is something behind in the manifested power, and we must continue to fill up that measure of revealed power, carrying each one of us the cross with Christ, till the last shame shall have been poured upon his cause, and he shall reign for ever and ever. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . 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. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. II. "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. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? 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. Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. Simon had to carry the cross but for a very little time, yet his name is in this Book for ever, and we may envy him his honor. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. 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. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. I show unto you a more excellent way. The most careless eye discerns it. John 19:1-16 - Glory Mocked and Condemned John 19:17-30 - Glory Crucified John 19:31-42 - Glory Buried A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." 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. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. 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