I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. 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? Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" Usually the crier went before with an announcement such as this, "This is Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, who for making himself a King, and stirring up the people, has been condemned to die." _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? 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. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. 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. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. ", When a brother makes confession of his transgressions, when on his knees before God he humbles himself with many tears, I am sure the Lord thinks far more of the tears of repentance than he would do of the mere drops of human sympathy. Ray Stedman 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. He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried, as I described to you last Sunday, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and you will not wonder that by-and-bye we find him staggering beneath his load, and that another is called to bear it with him. O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? good God! Jesus is formally condemned to crucifixion, but before he is led away he is given over to the Praetorian guards that those rough legionaries may insult him. 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. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? Conceal your religion? May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. 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. III. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. May God deliver you! But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! 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. We ought not to forget the Jews. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. Nor does the grief end here, for have not the best works we have ever done, and the best feelings we ever felt, and the best prayers we have ever offered, been tart and sour with sin? 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." Thou wast still straightened till the last pang was felt and the last word spoken to complete to full redemption, and hence thy cry, "I thirst." How they led him forth we do not know. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. It is not fit that he should live." O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? Have you repented of sin? Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! 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." 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? Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? why hast thou forsaken me?" Your path runs hard by that of your Master. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. Dear fountain of delight unknown! 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." Will your thoroughfares be thronged? 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. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. It is the way whereby many shall be brought to Christ, when this blessed soul-thirst of true Christian charity shall be upon those who are themselves saved. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. 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. John 19:4-5. Come to him in prayer, come to him in fellowship, come to him by perfect consecration, come to him by surrendering your whole being to the sweet mysterious influences of his Spirit. 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. John 19:3. They put his own clothes upon him, because they were the perquisites of the executioner, as modern hangmen take the garments of those whom they execute, so did the four soldiers claim a right to his raiment. 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." Let all your love be his. If he was so poor that his garments were stripped from him, and he was hung up upon the tree, penniless and friendless, hungering and thirsting, will you henceforth groan and murmur because you bear the yoke of poverty and want? 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." It is done. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. Let patience have her perfect work. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. Amen. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. As for myself, I would grow more and more insatiable after my divine Lord, and when I have much of him I would still cry for more; and then for more, and still for more. 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 fear me, beloved, I fear me that the most of us if we ever do carry it, carry it by compulsion, at least when it first comes on to our shoulders we do not like it, and would fain run from it, but the world compels us to bear Christ's cross. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." Brother, thirst to have your children save. 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." Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. How has it been with you? 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. III. The platted crown of thorns, the purple robe, the reed with which they smote him, and the spittle with which they disfigured him, all these marked the contempt in which they held the King of the Jews. 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. 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. 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. Oh! I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. 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. Our Lord, however, endured thirst to an extreme degree, for it was the thirst of death which was upon him, and more, it was the thirst of one whose death was not a common one, for "he tasted death for every man." Thus have I tried to spy out a measure of teaching, by using that one glass for the soul's eye, through which we look upon "I thirst" as the ensign of his true humanity. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. They would be very proper, very proper; God forbid that we should stay them, except with the gentle words of Christ, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me." Yet his language teaches us not to worship her, for he calls her "woman," but to honor him in whom his direst agony thought of her needs and griefs, as he also thinks of all his people, for these are his mother and sister and brother. 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. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Oh! 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. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. It was, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!" "And they took Jesus, and led him away." Let this mind be in you also. 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. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. One word: transformation. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. Oh! Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. 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." Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." what a black thought crosses our mind! One would wish to be as a spouse, who, when she had already been feasting in the banqueting-house, and had found his fruit sweet to her taste, so that she was overjoyed, yet cried out, "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love." Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. 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. 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. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. 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. 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. 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. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? You may die so, you may die now. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. These solemn sentences have shone like the seven golden candlesticks or the seven stars of the Apocalypse, and have lighted multitudes of men to him who spake them. But how vast was the disparity! It does not often happen that five or six thousand people meet together twice; it never does, I suppose; the scythe of death must cut some of you down before my voice shall warn you again! The sharpness of that sentence no exposition can fully disclose to us: it is keen as the very edge and point of the sword which pierced his heart. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. 29. "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." Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! 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. Some of you will! I cannot give you more than a mere taste of this rich subject, but I have been most struck with two ways of regarding our Lord's last words. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. Ah, beloved, our Lord was so truly man that all our griefs remind us of him: the next time we are thirsty we may gaze upon him; and whenever we see a friend faint and thirsting while dying we may behold our Lord dimly, but truly, mirrored in his members. 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." If not, bestir yourselves at once. 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!". We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. "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. 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. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. IV. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. 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. Today! A carnal appetite of the body, the satisfaction of the desire for food, first brought us down under the first Adam, and now the pang of thirst, the denial of what the body craved for, restores us to our place. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. I show unto you a more excellent way. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. 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. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. "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 arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. 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. What whips of steel for you, what knots of burning wire for you, when conscience shall smite you, when the law shall scourge you with its ten-thonged whip! He hath traversed the mournful way before thee, and every footprint thou leavest in the sodden soil is stamped side by side with his footmarks. He must love, it is his nature. 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. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? 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. 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. 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. "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. 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. 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. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. The most Scriptural way to describe the sufferings of Christ is not by laboring to excite sympathy through highly-coloured descriptions of his blood and wounds. 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