What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. 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. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. 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. He did not spare his Son the stripes. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Justice must fly the field lest it be severe to so deserving a being; as for punishment, it must not be whispered to his ears polite. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. are they not more like sharp vinegar? "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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. A river of the water of life, pure as crystal, proceedeth to-day out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and yet once he condescended to say, "I thirst," before his angelic guards, they would surely have emulated the courage of the men of David when they cut their way to the well of Bethlehem that was within the gate, and drew water in jeopardy of their lives. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. 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 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. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." 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. 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? 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. He had no sooner said "I thirst," and sipped the vinegar, than he shouted, "It is finished"; and all was over: the battle was fought and the victory won for ever, and our great Deliverer's thirst was the sign of his having smitten the last foe. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? Are you lukewarm? III. 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!" Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Conservative, but not too much depth. I. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. John 19:4-5. 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." The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. 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? 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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! God forbid! Oh! 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. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. you that are ashamed of Christ, how can you read that text, "He that is ashamed of me, and of my words, of him will I be ashamed when I come in the glory of my Father, and all my holy angels with me." " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." 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. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. 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! He calls for that: will you not give it to him? 1. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. 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. 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. 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. 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. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. 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. 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. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." "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." And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. John 19:16 . 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ Barrabas may go free; the thief and the murderer may be spared; but for Christ there is no word, but "Away with such a fellow from the earth! 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." Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. 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. More solemn still is the reflection that according to our Lord's own teaching, thirst will also be the eternal result of sin, for he says concerning the rich glutton, "In hell he lift up his eyes, being in torment," and his prayer, which was denied him, was, "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? 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. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! good God! They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. 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. Then thy sin lies not on thee; not one single ounce or drachma of it lies on thee; it has all been transferred by blessed imputation to Christ, and he bears it on his shoulder in the form of yonder heavy cross. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. 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. His great love makes him thirst to have us much nearer than we are; he will never be satisfied till all his redeemed are beyond gunshot of thee enemy. 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. Take up your cross daily and follow him. 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." I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. 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