You do suffer. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. "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. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Methinks Death thought it a splendid triumph when he saw the Master impaled and bleeding in the dominions of destruction; little did he know that the grave was to be rifled, and himself destroyed, by that crucified Son of man. We are not sure that Simon was a disciple of Christ; he may have been a friendly spectator; yet one would think the Jews would naturally select a disciple if they could. Perhaps, dear sister, you carry about with you a gnawing disease which eats at your heart, but Jesus took our sicknesses, and his cup was more bitter than yours. II. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? He believed, as a Roman in gods many. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. "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. 1. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. 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. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. John 19:16 . 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." Some of you will! V. I close with THE SAVIOR'S WARNING QUESTION "If they do these things in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?". The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. crucify him!" 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? A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. 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. Here we behold his human soul in anguish, his inmost heart overwhelmed by the withdrawing of Jehovah's face, and made to cry out as if in perplexity and amazement. Cover it with a cloak? Let all your love be his. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. 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." A few times the sun will go up and down the hill; a few more moons will wax and wane, and then we shall receive the glory. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. 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. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. 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! "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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? V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. 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. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! 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. 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. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. NOTICE the connection, or you will miss the meaning of the words; for at first sight it looks as if our Saviour taught us that it John:6:29 The Marvellous Magnet We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. When our Lord cried, "Eloi, Eloi," and afterwards said, "I thirst," the persons around the cross said, "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him," mocking him; and, according to Mark, he who gave the vinegar uttered much the same words. I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our Master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians the world would more heartily detest us, and if we would cleave more closely to Christ we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favor from men. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. Either Christ must die for me, or else I must die for myself the second death; if he did not carry the curse for me, then on me must it rest for ever and ever. 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. They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. God forbid! He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. 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. 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. 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. I show unto you a more excellent way. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. Some of these were persons of considerable rank; many of them had ministered to him of their substance; amidst the din and howling of the crowd, and the noise of the soldiery, they raised an exceeding loud and bitter cry, like Rachel weeping for her children, who would not be comforted, because they were not. You may die so, you may die now. 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. what a black thought crosses our mind! This very plainly sets forth the true and proper humanity of Christ, who to the end recognised his human relationship to Mary, of whom he was born. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." 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." 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. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. 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. 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. The last word but one, "It is finished." We ought not to forget the Jews. 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. Is not this a fertile field of thought? That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. 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. 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! 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? 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. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. "Women, behold thy son!" That impenitent thief went from the cross of his great agony and it was agony indeed to die on a cross he went to that place, to the flames of hell; and you, too, may go from the bed of sickness, and from the abode of poverty, to perdition, quite as readily as from the home of ease and the house of plenty. 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. 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. 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. A phantom, as some have called him, could not suffer in his fashion: but Jesus really suffered, not only the more refined pains of delicate and sensitive minds, but the rougher and commoner pangs of flesh and blood. Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name by complete conformity to his will. 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! The more manifestly there shall be a great gulf between the Church and the world, the better shall it be for both; the better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned; the better for the Church, for it shall be thereby preserved. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. 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. 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