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we open the word of God to John chapter
18 and then John chapter 19.
but first I'd like to read John chapter 18.
18.
when Jesus had spoken these words he
went forth with his disciples over the
brook kydron
where was a garden
into which he entered and his disciples
and Judas also who betrayed him knew the
place for Jesus often resorted there
with his disciples
Judas then having received a band of men
and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees
Pharisees
cometh there with lanterns and torches
and weapons
Jesus therefore knowing all things that
should come upon him went forth
and said unto them whom seek ye
they answered him Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus saith unto them I am he
and Judas also who betrayed him stood
with them
as soon then as he had said unto them I
am he they went backward and fell to the ground
ground
then asked he them again whom seek ye
and they said Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus answered I have told you that I am he
he
if therefore ye seek me let these go
their way
that the saying might be fulfilled which
he spoke of them whom thou gave us me
have I lost none
then Simon Peter having a sword drew it
and smote the high priest servant and
cut off his right ear
the servant's name was melchus
then said Jesus unto Peter
put up thy sword into the sheath
the cup which my father hath given me
shall I not drink it
and now John chapter 19
verses 28.
and 29.
after this Jesus knowing that all things
were now accomplished
that the scripture might be fulfilled
Seth I thirst
now there was set a vessel full of vinegar
vinegar
and they filled a sponge with vinegar
and put it upon hyssop
and put it to his mouth
blessed are they that do hunger and thirst
thirst
after righteousness
our Lord was crucified at nine o'clock
in the morning
when you open the Book of Genesis you
find that God creating
and the record tells us that in six days
at Calvary you find God recreating
you find God
in the person of Jesus Christ the son of God
God
doing the work for the new creation
the first three hours that he was on the cross
cross
our Lord was in the light
and he dealt with those who were around him
him
first he prayed for his enemies father
forgive them then he spoke to a thief
today you'll be with me in Paradise then
he talked to his mother and to John the disciple
disciple
from noon until three o'clock there was
Darkness over the land
and out of that Darkness came our Lord's
cry my God my God why thou forsaken me
and then there followed three statements
one right after the other
referring not to others but to himself
how like our loving Lord first to deal
with others
and then to talk about himself
his first statement was I thirst
referring to his body
his second statement was it is finished
he made his soul an offering for sin
his last statement was into thy hands I
commend my spirit
his Spirit given to God and so the last
three statements
tell us that our lord Jesus gave his all
his Spirit his soul his body yielded
there on the cross for us
the shortest of his words is I thirst
in the Greek New Testament one little
word of four letters I thirst
it may seem that we could look at this
word and not get much from it
but if Jesus said it
then there is some spiritual treasure in
this word that you and I need to get a
hold of and invest
I thirst
well there are some spiritual Treasures
in this statement
the better we understand this statement
the more we're going to love him
and I think the better we're going to
serve him
because in this statement I thirst
the Lord Jesus gives to us three
portraits of himself
when you see those words or hear those
words I thirst
there should flash upon the screen of
your soul three marvelous portraits
of the Lord Jesus Christ first
first
we see the suffering son of man
he was thirsting
just plain physical thirst you see Jesus
Christ was truly man
the big problem that's being discussed
today is the deity of Christ
for some reason or another the old
doctrine that Jesus is not God is
resurging again
books are being written to prove that
Jesus is not God but that wasn't the
problem back in the early days of the church
church
in the early days of the church they
knew he was God there was no question
about that the first heresy that sprang
up was that he was not man
that he just seemed to be God or that
God Came Upon Jesus at his baptism and
left him when he died on the cross
and those heresies are still with us
today too
in the early church the battle was not
is Jesus God the battle was was he truly man
man
and he was truly man
he was born the way men are born he grew
up the way people grow up he went
through childhood and Youth and Young Manhood
Manhood
and he lived the way people lived except
without sin he ate
he drank
he got tired
one night he was so weary he went to
sleep in the boat in a storm I could not
he knew what it was to feel pain he knew
what it was to weep
he had all of the sinless infirmities of
a human body
because he did have a human body he died
and he suffered when he died Jesus
Christ felt the depths of physical
suffering when he was on the cross
and of course a part of the suffering of crucifixion
crucifixion
when you read back in Psalm 22
which is the Old Testament picture
of crucifixion
you read in verse 15 my strength is
dried up like a pot's herd and my tongue
cleaveeth to my jaws and thou has
brought me into the dust of death
this entire Psalm pictures the
crucifixion of Our Lord they pierced my
hands and my feet and so Jesus was
enduring physical suffering
now you will recall that when our Lord
came to the cross
a group of Jewish women were there
to help all of the people being executed
there was a Sisterhood in Jerusalem that
was dedicated to the purpose of
alleviating the suffering of those who
were being crucified and they had
mingled a narcotic
they had some wine mingled with myrrh
and this was a narcotic if you drank it
it would sort of deaden your nerves and
you wouldn't feel things quite so sensitively
sensitively
and the Lord Jesus refused that
when he had taken the sip of it he said
no I don't want it
that's a remarkable thing no it isn't remarkable
remarkable
I would have accepted it
every time I've had surgery I've always
rejoiced that I didn't feel it
I'm grateful for nurses who come in and
say now we're going to put this into
your vein you start counting
and you never get much past four or five
and you're gone
I'm glad for all of the devices men have
discovered from God
to dead and pain but our lord Jesus said
no I'm going to the cross and I'm going
to accept the full load of physical suffering
suffering
back in the Old Testament when the
priest when the high priest was serving
in the Tabernacle or the temple he was
not permitted to drink strong drink
my Lord Jesus was not only the priest he
was the sacrifice and he said no strong drink
drink
you remember when David had to restore
to God
said to him you purchased this property
David you put an altar up here and the
man from whom David purchased the
property said oh my Lord let me give it
to you and David said no
this is not for me this is for the Lord
I will not give unto the Lord that which
has cost me nothing
My Savior on the cross is saying I am
not going to give unto my father that
which cost me nothing I'm not going to
take a shortcut I'm not going to go the
easy way I will bear the full price of
sin and I will bear the full load of suffering
suffering
and therefore he did not drink the narcotic
narcotic
I'm glad that he didn't
for had our Lord been under the
influence of some narcotic he could not
have spoken these marvelous words
I wonder if he could have turned to a
thief and said today you'll be with me
in Paradise
and I wonder if he could have said I
thirst we have here the suffering son
of man
now I say that to say this
you and I go through suffering
each one of us here today has at some
time or another experienced physical or
emotional suffering
and when we are suffering we are tempted
to say God doesn't know God doesn't
understand and yet the Bible teaches
just the opposite
in the first several chapters of the
book of Hebrews
where the writer spells out in detail
the humanity and the deity of Jesus Christ
Christ
and he says to us let me tell you why
Jesus Took upon him a body
that he might die and in dying he might
destroy Satan who has the power of death
and that he might Deliver Us
but he says there's another reason why
he has a human body
it's so that he might learn by
experience what you and I go through day
after day after day and my friend you
can never come to Jesus Christ and say Lord
Lord
you don't know how I feel
because he does know how you feel
we have not a high priest who cannot be
touched with the feelings of our weaknesses
weaknesses
we have a high priest who can be touched
who can say to you I know how you feel I
know what you're going through
and you know what he says to us keep going
going
don't quit
I was on the cross
I know the meaning of physical suffering
and I stayed there I didn't take the
I'm sure there's some heart here today
that says you know Pastor if I had been there
there
I'm sure you would have
I'm sure if you and I had been there
knowing what we know today
and loving as we love today we would
have given him a drink if we had heard
him say I thirst we would have run and
in some way gotten to him not just a
sponge to wet his lips
we would have gotten to him a good drink
that would help him
you see I would have done that then do it
it
we say I can't he's no longer on the
cross this is true
he no longer has a physical thirst this
is true
but do you remember what he said in one
of his parables
remember the story he told about the
sheep and the goats
when the son of man shall come in his
glory and all the angels with him then
shall he sit upon the throne of his
glory and before him shall be gathered
all the Gentiles and he shall separate
them as a Shepherd separates his sheep
from his goats
he's going to say to the Sheep now you
enter into the kingdom because I was
hungry and you fed me
I was thirsty and you gave me a drink I
was naked and you clothed me I was in
prison you visited me and they're going
to say well Lord when did we ever do
that oh he said inasmuch as you've done
it unto these the least of my brethren
you've done it unto me
yeah what he's saying in that story
he is saying that when you and I give a
cup of cold water to somebody who needs
it we're giving it to him that's why we
do it
when you and I visit somebody who needs
visiting we're visiting him when you and
I clothe someone who needs it we're
clothing him whatever we do to his
people in loving service we're doing to
him and so when Jesus says I thirst
he says look at this portrait of the
suffering son of man
I know how you feel I know what you're
going through and I know that if you
will help others you're helping me
and I can come and help you
there's a second portrait though that we
find in these words I thirst
not only the suffering son of man
but we also have the portrait
of the obedient servant of God
why did Jesus say I thirst
listen to the scripture
after this Jesus knowing that all things
were now accomplished
that the scripture might be fulfilled
Seth I thirst
the Lord Jesus Christ was not only the
suffering son of man but he was the
obedient servant of God he was on the
cross to fulfill the word and what he
said on the cross fulfilled the word and
what he did on the cross fulfilled the
word everything about the Earthly life
of my Lord was in obedience to the word
his reference of course is to Psalm 69.
Psalm 69 is one of the Messianic Psalms
in the Old Testament
it's one of David's Psalms picturing an
experience he went through but in this
experience picturing an experience that
I look at verse 3 of Psalm 69 I am weary
of my crying my throat is dried
mine eyes fail while I wait for my God
they that Hate Me Without a Cause are
more than the hairs in my head that's
quoted in the New Testament in John
chapter 15 and verse 25 verse 8 I am
become a stranger unto my brethren an
alien unto my mother's children for the
Zeal of thine house hath eaten me up
that's quoted in John 2 17 the
reproaches of those who reproach thee
are Fallen upon me that's quoted over in
Romans 15 3. look at verse 21.
they gave me also Gall for my food and
in my thirst they gave me vinegar to
drink now this vinegar was the cheap
wine that the soldiers drank they
couldn't afford the expensive wine they
had the cheap wine
but our lord Jesus
on the cross is obedient to the word of God
God
now he was born by the word
I come to do thy will o God Thy word is
within my heart in the volume of the
book it's written of me how he was born
fulfilled the word
behold the Virgin shall conceive and be
with child
where he was born fulfilled the word but
lehem the princes of Judah when he was
born fulfilled the word in the fullness
of the time God sent forth his son where
he lived fulfilled the word they went
down to Egypt out of Egypt and I called
my son they went to Nazareth he shall be
it's an interesting thing to sit down
and read the Jewish gospel the gospel of
Matthew written by a Jew for the Jews
and all through this book Matthew Rings
the same Bell that it might be fulfilled
that was spoken by the prophet that it
might be fulfilled that it might be
fulfilled everything that happened on
Calvary was in fulfillment of the word
of God
when they uh
gambled for his garments back in John
Chapter 19 Verse 24.
they cast lots that the scriptures might
be fulfilled which says they parted my
raiment among them and for my vesture
they did cast lots
after our Lord died and when they came
and stabbed him they were going to break
his bones but verse 36 says that the
scripture should be fulfilled a bone of
him shall not be broken but they pierced
him in his fulfilled another scripture
verse 37 they shall look on him whom
they pierced
my dear friend Jesus Christ in his life
and in his death was obedient to the
word of God that's why his death was a
victory and not a defeat
if you and I regardless of what
experiences we go through are simply
obedient to the word of God then God
will see us through Jesus Christ came to be
be
the suffering servant of God
Philippians chapter 2 says he emptied himself
himself
became obedient unto death even the
we don't hear much about being servants today
today
most people want to be rulers most
people want to be sovereigns Jesus came
as a servant
and he was willing to obey the word of
God even though it meant suffering and dying
dying
now there aren't very many of us who are
called upon if any of us to obey the
the writer to the Hebrews says you have
not yet shed your blood in your battle
against sin
you say oh my Christian life is so hard
life is so difficult you aren't being crucified
and the Lord Jesus Christ when he said I thirst
thirst
said it because he was obedient to the
word of God his words and his walk and
his Works were in obedience to the word
of God wherefore God also highly hath
exalted him and given him a name that is
above every name I would say to you
today as I say to my own heart the most
important thing in life is not to escape suffering
suffering
and the most important thing in life is
not to escape trouble
the most important thing of in life is
to obey the word of God no matter what
our circumstances may be because when we
obey the word of God then we fulfill the
will of God and as we fulfill the will
of God then we are bringing glory to God
the suffering son of man he knows what
you're going through the obedient
servant of God he says whatever you're
it would be a difficult thing to come to
the end of life and have no Bible to
rest on
here is my Lord innocent yet treated as
though he's guilty
perfect and yet accused of crimes here
is my Lord dying
and what is it that he rests upon as he
not the latest researchers of the psychologists
psychologists
not the inventions of the occultists
not the vague dreams of the spiritists
he rests on the word of God
and my friend when you come to that day
of your death
you'd better be able to rest on the word
of God
a third portrait comes to us in these
words I thirst
he is not only
the submissive obedient servant of God
and the suffering son of man
but far above everything else in these
words I thirst
we see Jesus Christ as the loving savior
of sinners
now there's a physical reason why Jesus
was thirsty we don't argue that point at all
there is a physical reason why Jesus was thirsty
thirsty
but don't stop on that level please
there is a spiritual reason why Jesus is thirsty
thirsty
I'm not denying that his tongue was
cleaving to the roof of his mouth I'm
not denying that he was partaking of the Dust
Dust
of death what I am is saying what I am
saying is we don't stop there
when Jesus said I thirst
he had just gone through three hours of Darkness
Darkness
the sun had not been shining on him he
had not been breathing that hot air of
sunshine he'd been shaded from that but
may I put it this way
he had cried out my God my God why hast
Thou forsaken me
you remember David said my soul
thirsteth for God for the Living God
like as the deer pants after the cool
water Brooks so my soul is panting after
God but our Lord had been denied the
face of God for a moment
our Lord had discovered the face of God
turned away from him Thou Art of pure
eyes to behold iniquity and when all of
the sin of all of the world was placed
upon Jesus
God wasn't there now God was in Christ
reconciling the world but for that
I don't have to tell this congregation
our Lord told us an account of a certain
rich man
who had a beggar at his door the baker
was a Believer the rich man was an unbeliever
the beggar died and was carried
to Abraham's bosom the rich man died and
was buried
and he woke up
in the other world
and he cried out and said
Father Abraham
I didn't want to talk to that beggar
when he was here on Earth when I was on Earth
Earth
I wouldn't pay any attention he had
nothing to give me I had everything but
oh Father Abraham would just send them
over here let him dip just the tip of
his finger in some water because
I'm in torments in this flame you know
what people are saying in hell
I thirst
I thirst
you say well Pastor you're certainly not
going to try to beat us down a sawdust
Trail and talking about all of the
punishments of hell
I don't care if the trail is sawdust or
marble if you've never come to the Cross
there will be a day when you will say I thirst
when my Lord spoke about hell I'm sure
there was a tear in his eye and a
breaking in his voice
my Lord never spoke about hell as though
he were glad people went there
when the Lord Jesus Christ died on the
cross and was made sin for us he tasted
the punishment of hell
and he said what people say when they
are in hell
you see there were really three cups at Calvary
Calvary
when my Lord came to Calvary they
offered him the cup of charity
drink this and it won't hurt so much he
refused it
the soldiers offered him a cup of
mockery Luke says that from time to time
the soldiers would try to offer him some
wine then they'd pull it back again
they'd offer him some wine and pull it
back again finally one of the soldiers
was sympathetic and went and moistened
his lips with the vinegar the cup of
mockery oh if you're the king here's
some wine for the king come down from
the cross
our Lord endured the cup of mockery
but the most important cup at Calvary
was the cup of iniquity
Jesus said to Peter the cup that my
father has given me to drink shall I not
drink it
and there on the cross when Jesus said I
thirst it was because he had drunk of
the cup of iniquity and sin never
you read Psalm 32 where David is crying
out for forgiveness after a year of
iniquity and
deception and see him
you know what David said
when I kept silence
when I was infected with sin
I got old
in fact my body felt like the drought of
Summer I dried up that's what sin does
to a person
that when my Lord drank the cup of
iniquity on the cross
he cried out I thirst
now he did this for you
he did this for me he did this for sinners
sinners
all over the world throughout history
he died for the sins of the world he
it's rather interesting to trace water
in the Gospel of John you had to do it someday
someday
in John Chapter 2 Jesus goes to a
wedding feast
and they run out of wine what an
embarrassing thing
and the Lord Jesus has them fill the
pots with water and he turns water into wine
then in John chapter 4 the Lord Jesus
meets a sinful Woman by a well and she's
taking water from the well and my Lord
says you keep drinking that water
you'll keep on thirsting he wasn't
talking about the bucket and the water
he was talking about her life you keep
drinking at those dirty cisterns of
sensuality you'll always be thirsty
you'll thirst forever
but you drink of the water that I'm
going to give you you'll never thirst
and she trusted him and he put within
her an Artesian whale of water that
Springs up into everlasting life and
never again did she have to drink at the
sordid cesspools of the world that in
John chapter 7 the Lord Jesus stood up
at the Feast of Tabernacles when the
priests were pouring out the water from
the pool of Siloam remembering when God
gave water to Israel in the wilderness
and Jesus said If any man thirst and is
If any man thirst let him come unto me
and drink
as it is written in the scriptures out
of his innermost being out of the
Messiah The Rock shall flow rivers of
now you get to John chapter 19 where the
one who said I'll give you a well in
your heart the one who said I'll let you
drink of the rivers of Living Water said
I thirst he thirsted that we might never
thirst again
when John wrote the book of the revelation
revelation
he must have rejoiced exceedingly when
he got to chapter 7 and verse 11 where
it talks about the saints of God in
heaven where God's going to Shepherd
them the lamb is going to shepher them
and they're never going to thirst
you see hell is a place where thirst is
never quenched Heaven is a place where
thirst is never experienced we shall
never thirst
for we shall drink of the bounties of
his Blessing forever
I think that's why the Apostle John when
he got to the end of the last book of
the Bible
gave this invitation
and the spirit
and the bride say come
and let him that heareth say come
and let him that is a thirst come
and whosoever will let him take the
Water of Life
freely you know why it's free because
Jesus paid for it that's why
and so the question today my friend is
not do you thirst
everybody thirsts
The Sinner is thirsting for satisfaction
nothing that he endures nothing that he
experiences really satisfies and he's
thirsting for satisfaction
everybody has thirst
so the question is not do you thirst
the question is simply how long are you
going to thirst
that's the question
if you receive Jesus Christ you'll never
thirst again
and for all eternity the satisfaction
if you don't trust Christ as your savior
I'll tell you how long you'll thirst
you'll thirst forever
where the things that you craved in this
life you will crave forever never to be satisfied
and so we say to you today tenderly
lovingly very simply
Jesus thirsted for you the loving savior
of sinners
that's the portrait that I want you to
see today
the loving savior of Sinners who drank
the cup from his father's hand
that you might never thirst now will you
receive him
will you come to him and let him save you
we come our father thankful that you
have quenched the thirsting in our hearts
hearts
we have drunk of the living water and
are satisfied
you have placed within our hearts
this Artesian well of life that keeps
bringing up fresh and pure and satisfying
satisfying
and we take it with us
we don't look to the circumstances of
this world to satisfy us because they
are but broken cisterns
that contain dirty water
we carry with us this beautiful Artesian
well that you've given to us thank you Father
Father
thank you that The Rock was smitten that
the water might come forth thank you
Lord Jesus that you thirsted that we
might never thirst again
and I pray
that this hour there might be many who
will trust Christ and experience that
deep satisfaction that comes with salvation
salvation
that changed life that creates new appetites
appetites
o gracious God work today that Sinners
will turn
and Trust the savior
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