While thus we admire his condescension let our thoughts also turn with delight to his sure sympathy: for if Jesus said, "I thirst," then he knows all our frailties and woes. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. "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. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. 1. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. 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. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. Add to Cart. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. Oh! According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. 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. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. 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 . Think of the millions in this dark world! 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." There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. How they led him forth we do not know. 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. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. We thought sometimes that we loved him as we heard the story of his death, but we did not change our lives for his sake, nor put our trust in him, and so we gave him vinegar to drink. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? 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. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. 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." 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! You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. 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. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. IV. Think of that! "Women, behold thy son!" They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! He thirsted to pluck us from between the jaws of hell, to pay our redemption price, and set us free from the eternal condemnation which hung over us; and when on the cross the work was almost done his thirst was not assuaged, and could not be till he could say, "It is finished." As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. 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. 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. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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. 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." 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. Cover it with a cloak? There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! 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. 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? Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. 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. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". This is a kind of sweet whereof if a man hath much he must have more, and when he hath more he is under a still greater necessity to receive more, and so on, his appetite for ever growing by that which it feeds upon, till he is filled with all the fulness of God. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. the people saw him in the street, not arrayed in the purple robe, but wearing his garment without seam, woven from the top throughout, the common smock-frock, in fact, of the countrymen of Palestine, and they said at once, "Yes, 'tis he, the man who healed the sick, and raised the dead; the mighty teacher who was wont to sit upon the mountain-top, or stand in the temple courts and preach with authority, and not as the Scribes." Is not this a fertile field of thought? It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. 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. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. 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 we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? 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. 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. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. 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!" 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? You do suffer. 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. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. 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. 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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. For him they have no tolerance. 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. I show unto you a more excellent way. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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. Oh! Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? 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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. The sharpness of that sentence no exposition can fully disclose to us: it is keen as the very edge and point of the sword which pierced his heart. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. 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." 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. 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. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . Take up your cross daily and follow him. good God! Let patience have her perfect work. It is not fit that he should live." 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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). 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." I. 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. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. Have you prayed for your fellow men? The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." 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. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. 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. 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? And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! 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. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. 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