You are not, therefore, so poor as he. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. 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. 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. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. John 19:1-16 - Glory Mocked and Condemned John 19:17-30 - Glory Crucified John 19:31-42 - Glory Buried A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. crucify him!" Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! The reed was no mere rush from the brook, it was of a stouter kind, of which easterns often make walkingstaves, the blows were cruel as well as insulting; and the crown was not of straw but thorn, hence it produced pain as well as pictured scorn. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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. Separately or in connection our Master's words overflow with instruction to thoughtful minds: but of all save one I must say, "Of which we cannot now speak particularly." Remember that, and expect to suffer. 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! John 19:16 . The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. Think, dear friends, there are some in this congregation who as yet have no interest in Jesu's blood, some sitting next to you, your nearest friends who, if they were now to close their eyes in death, would open them in hell! "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. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. Oh! Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. 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. 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. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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. Grant me only thus much of likeness: we have here a Prince with his bride, bearing his banner, and wearing his royal robes, traversing the streets of his own city, surrounded by a throng who shout aloud, and a multitude who gaze with interest profound. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. I pray you, lend your ears to such faint words as I can utter on a subject all too high for me, the march of the world's Maker along the way of his great sorrow; your Redeemer traversing the rugged path of suffering, along which he went with heaving heart and heavy footsteps, that he might pave a royal road of mercy for his enemies. 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. 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. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. He is exiled from their friendship, too. 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. How has it been with you? Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? 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!". In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 29. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. It was the common place of death. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. It was pain that dried his mouth and made it like an oven, till he declared, in the language of the twenty-second psalm, "My tongue cleaveth to my jaws." Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? 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. "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. 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. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. 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. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. 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? For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Will your thoroughfares be thronged? Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. 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 knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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." He calls for that: will you not give it to him? _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? 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." 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. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." A Christian living to indulge the base appetites of a brute beast, to eat and to drink almost to gluttony and drunkenness, is utterly unworthy of the name. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. away with him." The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. 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. 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. John 19:28 . London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Our sinful tongues, blistered by the fever of passion, must have burned for ever had not his tongue been tormented with thirst in our stead. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? 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 . 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. 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. 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. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? 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. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. 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! 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. Those once highly favored people of God who cursed themselves with, "His blood be upon us and upon our children," ought to make us mourn when we think of their present degradation. 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. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ Are you lukewarm? It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. 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. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. 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." 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." Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. ", 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. 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. 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