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. "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." Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. 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. 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! 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 . 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. 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. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. 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. Think of the millions in this dark world! He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. 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. Did not the high-priest bring the scape-goat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat? There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. 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. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. 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. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. 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? I have heard sermons, and studied works by Romish writers upon the passion and agony, which have moved me to copious tears, but I am not clear that all the emotion was profitable. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. And what makes him love us so? 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. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ 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. 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! 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. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. Today! Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. In your chamber let the gasp of your Lord as he said, "I thirst," go through your ears, and as you hear it let it touch your heart and cause you to gird up yourself and say, "Doth he say, 'I thirst'? 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. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. 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. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." "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. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. 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. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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. 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. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." 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. 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. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. According to the sacred canticle of love, in the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs, we learn that when he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! 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." All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. What if the bread be dry, what if the medicine be nauseous; yet for his thirst there was no relief but gall and vinegar, and dare we complain? Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. 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. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. Have you repented of sin? They are created in the minds of men. 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. The nails were fastened in the most sensitive parts of the body, and the wounds were widened as the weight of his body dragged the nails through his blessed flesh, and tore his tender nerves. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." 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." "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. Brother, thirst to have your children save. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. 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. 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." Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. He thirsted for water doubtless, but his soul was thirsty in a higher sense; indeed, he seems only to have spoken that the Scriptures might be fulfilled as to the offering him vinegar. 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." This very plainly sets forth the true and proper humanity of Christ, who to the end recognised his human relationship to Mary, of whom he was born. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. I cannot roll up into one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Christ who died for us, therefore it is impossible for me to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." 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. 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." III. good God! Conceal your religion? You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. 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. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. 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. Whether a disciple then or not, we have every reason to believe that he became so afterwards; he was the father, we read, of Alexander and Rufus, two persons who appear to have been well known in the early Church; let us hope that salvation came to his house when he was compelled to bear the Savior's cross. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? 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." 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. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . 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. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. 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. It is not fit that he should live." Oh! 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. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. 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. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. "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." We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. 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. "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. 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. Let patience have her perfect work. 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. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. 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