In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. 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. How has it been with you? Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" 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. 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. I saw the other day the emblem of a serpent with its tail in its mouth, and if I carry it a little beyond the artist's intention the symbol may set forth appetite swallowing up itself. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. 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. 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. 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. What doth he say? 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! Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. 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. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. 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. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! I suppose that the "I thirst" was uttered softly, so that perhaps only one and another who stood near the cross heard it at all; in contrast with the louder cry of "Lama sabachthani" and the triumphant shout of "It is finished": but that soft, expiring sigh, "I thirst," has ended for us the thirst which else, insatiably fierce, had preyed upon us throughout eternity. what a black thought crosses our mind! Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. 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. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. John 19:3. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" The last word but one, "It is finished." 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. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. But how vast was the disparity! "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. John 19:4-5. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. The most careless eye discerns it. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. III. 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! A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. That thirst was caused, perhaps, in part by the loss of blood, and by the fever created by the irritation caused by his four grievous wounds. 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. You may sit under a sermon, and feel a great deal, but your feeling is worthless unless it leads you to weep for yourselves and for your children. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. We may well remember our faults this day. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. 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. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the highest place. Our great hero, the destroyer of Death, bearded the lion in his den, slew the monster in his own castle, and dragged the dragon captive from his own den. 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. Cover it with a cloak? The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. 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. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. 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. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." II. "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. The Via Dolorosa, as the Romanists call it, is a long street at the present time, but it may have been but a few yards. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. He is exiled from their friendship, too. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." 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." 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. 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. and they smote him with their hands. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! 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." Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? We ought all to have a longing for conversions. "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 is what the Apostle meant when he said, "I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church." 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! He is not allowed to worship with them. For him they have no tolerance. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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. 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. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. 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. One word: transformation. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? The Church, the bride of Christ, was there conformed to the image of her Lord; she was there, I say, in Simon, bearing the cross, and in the women weeping and lamenting. 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