And what makes him love us so? There was a deeper meaning in his words than she dreamed of, as a verse further down fully proves, when he said to his disciples, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. 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. Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the sins of the people, so that if they were sought for, they could not be found. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. May God deliver you! 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. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! Let patience have her perfect work. 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." 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. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? Thoughtful men have drawn a wealth of meaning from them, and in so doing have arranged them into different groups, and placed them under several heads. 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. But my Prince is hated without a cause. Let me show what I think he meant. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. 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. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. 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. 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." 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. There was nothing behind in the price, but there is something behind in the manifested power, and we must continue to fill up that measure of revealed power, carrying each one of us the cross with Christ, till the last shame shall have been poured upon his cause, and he shall reign for ever and ever. "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 sinful find our conversation distasteful; in our pursuits the carnal have no interest; things dear to us are dross to worldlings, while things precious to them are contemptible to us. 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. This added to his shame; but, methinks, in this, too, he draws the nearer to us, "He was numbered with the transgressors, and bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." 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. 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. 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. January 1, 1970 A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." John vi. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? 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. 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. "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. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Romanists pretend to know; in fact they know the very spot where Veronica wiped the blessed face with her handkerchief, and found his likeness impressed upon it; we also know very well where that was not done; in fact they know the very spot where Jesus fainted, and if you go to Jerusalem you can see all these different places if you only carry enough credulity with you; but the fact is the city has been so razed, and burned, and ploughed, that there is little chance of distinguishing any of these positions, with the exception, it may be, of Mount Calvary, which being outside the walls may possibly still remain. crucify him!" 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. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. Yet, dear friends, to some eyes there will be more attraction in the procession of sorrow, of shame, and of blood, than in you display of grandeur and joy. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? It was the common place of death. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. 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. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. 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. Remember how Paul said, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. 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 Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. 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. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". "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.". There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. He sipped of the vinegar, and he was refreshed, and no sooner has he thrown off the thirst than he shouted like a conqueror, "It is finished," and quitted the field, covered with renown. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. You carry the cross after him. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." 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. 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! 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." Weep not for him, but for these. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. He knew once how to turn water into wine, and in matchless love he has often turned our sour drink-offerings into something sweet to himself, though in themselves, methinks, they have been the juice of sour grapes, sharp enough to set his teeth on edge. 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!" "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? 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. 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