Brother, thirst to have your children save. Like the steps of a ladder or the links of a golden chain, there is a mutual dependence and interlinking of each of the cries, so that one leads to another and that to a third. 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." Some of us, indeed, confess that, if we had read this narrative of suffering in a romance, we should have wept copiously, but the story of Christ's sufferings does not cause the excitement and emotion one would expect. "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. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. John 19:16 . 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." He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. 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? He came to save, and man denied him hospitality: at the first there was no room for him at the inn, and at the last there was not one cool cup of water for him to drink; but when he thirsted they gave him vinegar to drink. 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." Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. I differ from them greatly, but I will say this, that next to the actual enjoyment of my Lord's presence I love to hunger and to thirst after him. 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? The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" 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. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. 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. 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. "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. 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. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. Is not this a fertile field of thought? It was the common place of death. 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. 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. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He did not spare his Son the stripes. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . 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." Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" 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. It is so with each one of you? Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." 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. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. Cover it with a cloak? But how vast was the disparity! Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. John 19:28 J.R. Thomson This is both the shortest of all the dying utterances of Jesus, and it is the one which is most closely related to himself. 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? They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. That little rising ground, which perhaps was called Golgotha, the place of a skull, from its somewhat resembling the crown of a man's skull, was the common place of execution. 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. 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. 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. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. I cannot say that it is short and sweet, for, alas, it was bitterness itself to our Lord Jesus; and yet out of its bitterness I trust there will come great sweetness to us. Are you lukewarm? Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! I. This hint only. 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. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Nor is this all. 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. Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce him guilty; God himself imputes our sins to him; he was made sin for us; and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon his shoulders for that cross was a sort of representation in wood of our guilt and doom we see the great Scape-goat led away by the appointed officers of justice. 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. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. 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. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. 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. 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. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. III. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. Though bitter to him in the speaking it will be sweet to us in the hearing, so sweet that all the bitterness of our trials shall be forgotten as we remember the vinegar and gall of which he drank. 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. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. 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. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" Take up your cross daily and follow him. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? 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. Can they be compared to generous wine? We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? 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. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." 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." Inductive Bible study on John 19. John 19:4-5. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. Oh! Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. It came from the parched lips of the Divine Victim towards the close of his agony, and after the darkness which endured from the sixth to the ninth hour. 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. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. What doth he say? This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. 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." Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. 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 For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. If we weep for the sufferings of Christ in the same way as we lament the sufferings of another man, our emotions will be only natural, and may work no good. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. 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. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? "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." 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." "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 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. 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 . The whole universe shall hiss you; angels shall be ashamed of you; your own friends, yes, your sainted mother, shall say "Amen" to your condemnation; and those who loved you best shall sit as assessors with Christ to judge you and condemn you! are they not more like sharp vinegar? Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . 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. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . 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. I wonder he has ever received them, as one marvels why he received this vinegar; and yet he has received them, and smiled upon us for presenting them. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." He is exiled from their friendship, too. 36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"[ a] 37 and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."[ b] Read full chapter Footnotes (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. Angels cannot suffer thirst. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. 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! Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" 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. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. We ought not to forget the Jews. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. They are created in the minds of men. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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. John 19:7-8. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. 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. 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." What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? 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 Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. 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. Oh! 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. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. Christ was always thirsty to save men, and to be loved of men; and we see a type of his life-long desire when, being weary, he sat thus on the well and said to the woman of Samaria, "Give me to drink." 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. good God! When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples over the Brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. 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 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. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. 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. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. Let all your love be his. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." 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. . We are in the world, but we must never be of it; we are not to be secluded like monks in the cloister, but we are to be separated like Jews among Gentiles; men, but not of men; helping, aiding, befriending, teaching, comforting, instructing, but not sinning either to escape a frown or to win a smile. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. Amen. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. 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