Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. 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. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. 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. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com Amid all the anguish of his spirit his last words prove him to have remained fully self-possessed, true to his forgiving nature, true to his kingly office, true to his filial relationship, true to his God, true to his love of the written word, true to his glorious work, and true to his faith in his Father. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. 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." Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" here we see the Mediator interceding: Jesus standing before the Father pleading for the guilty. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. He must love, it is his nature. Angels cannot suffer thirst. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? He did not spare his Son the stripes. 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! And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. I have sometimes met with persons who have suffered much; they have lost money, they have worked hard all their lives, or they have laid for years upon a bed of sickness, and they therefore suppose that because they have suffered so much in this life, they shall thus escape the punishment of sin hereafter. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. Today! May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. And what makes him love us so? You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. 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. 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. 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. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." 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. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. But such is not the truthful estimate of man according to the Scriptures: there man is a fallen creature, with a carnal mind which cannot be reconciled to God; a worse than brutish creature, rendering evil for good, and treating his God with vile ingratitude. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. You do suffer. 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. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. 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. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. 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. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. Your heir of royalty is magnificently drawn along the streets in his stately chariot, sitting at his ease: my princely sufferer walks with weary feet, marking the road with crimson drops; not borne, but bearing; not carried, but carrying his cross. ye unregenerate men and women, and there are not a few such here now, remember that when God saw Christ in the sinner's place he did not spare him, and when he finds you without Christ, he will not spare you. 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. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Add to Cart. This hint only. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." 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. John 19:28 . 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. 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. Have you repented of sin? 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." 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. 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. 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Scripture provides a wealth . Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. 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." IV. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. Take up your cross daily and follow him. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. Amen. Nor is this all. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. and the answer shall come back, "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? 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. crucify him!" If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? Some of those whom we loved very dearly we have seen quite unable to help themselves; the death sweat has been upon them, and this has been one of the marks of their approaching dissolution, that they have been parched with thirst, and could only mutter between their half-closed lips, "Give me to drink." Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. They are created in the minds of men. What joy, what satisfaotion this will give if we can sing, "My soul looks back to see The burden thou didst bear, When hastening to the accursed tree, And knows her guilt was there!". Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. In the same song he speaks of his church, and says, "The roof of thy mouth is as the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." Oh! 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. I tell you, sirs, that yonder malefactor carried his cross and died on it; and you will carry your sorrows, and be damned with them, except you repent. II. 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. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. Christ comes forth from Pilate's hall with the cumbrous wood upon his shoulder, but through weariness he travels slowly, and his enemies urgent for his death, and half afraid, from his emaciated appearance, that he may die before he reaches the place of execution, allow another to carry his burden. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! 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. 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. 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. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. It is not fit that he should live." Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. Great and worshipful being that he is, truth is to be altered for him, the gospel is to be modulated to suit the tone of his various generations, and all the arrangements of the universe are to be rendered subservient to his interests. 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. Cover it with a cloak? 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. O thou blessed Master, if we are indeed nailed up to the tree with thee, give us a thirst after thee with a thirst which only the cup of "the new covenant in thy blood" can ever satisfy. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Think of that! Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? He is not allowed to worship with them. 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. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings Oh! Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. John 19:7-8. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" 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. 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. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. Today! Conceal your religion? April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. 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? 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. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. 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. 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." Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? If not, bestir yourselves at once. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. 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. There were two other cross-bearers in the throng; they were malefactors; their crosses were just as heavy as the Lord's, and yet, at least, one of them had no sympathy with him, and his bearing the cross only led to his death, and not to his salvation. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. 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. "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." The last word but one, "It is finished." Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? Therefore at least a cup of cold water to refresh you still, you see teaches us grand. Your sin or not their tongues, and religion fights not so stern battle... Why hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin and. 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