Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, they cannot spare him the agonies of dying on the cross, they will therefore remit the labor of carrying it. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? "I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. "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.". This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. So he was thirsting then. Conceal your religion? Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? 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. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. "Women, behold thy son!" Your path runs hard by that of your Master. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? 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." The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal experience of it. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein." 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." Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . 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. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. 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. V. I close with THE SAVIOR'S WARNING QUESTION "If they do these things in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?". Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. 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. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." Let there be nothing but your religion to object to, and then if that offends them let them be offended, it is a cross which you must carry joyfully. And yet he placed himself for our sakes into a position of shame and suffering where none would wait upon him, but when he cried, "I thirst," they gave him vinegar to drink. 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. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! Have you repented of sin? 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? 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. 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. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. IV. Let me show what I think he meant. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 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. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Think of that! Remember that, and expect to suffer. Complain not, then. 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! 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. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. 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. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. "I thirst" is the fifth cry, and its utterance teaches us the truth of Scripture, for all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, and therefore our Lord said, "I thirst." For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. 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." Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. 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. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. The last word but one, "It is finished." 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. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. 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. 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. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. "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. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. "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. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! 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? Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. John 19:7-8. 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. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. It is done. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. 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. 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. Godly working-men, should your employers or your fellow-workers frown upon you; wives, should your husbands threaten to cast you out, remember, without the camp was Jesus' place, and without the camp is yours. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. 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. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. 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. Inductive Bible study on John 19. 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." Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . 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. Henceforth, also, let us cultivate the spirit of resignation, for we may well rejoice to carry a cross which his shoulders have borne before us. "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." sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. Oh! 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. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. what a black thought crosses our mind! You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? 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