Post by calfisher on Mar 28, 2016 23:11:11 GMT -5
This is a presentation given on Good Friday. Seven speakers on the seven sayings on the Cross. I was given the fifth saying, "I Thirst"
THE FIFTH WORD.
Turn with me to John 19:28. Hold your attention there while I paint a picture with words of what Jesus was experiencing.
Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished; or just upon being accomplished, were as good as finished; and as they were to be, would be in a very short time; even all things relating to his sufferings, and the circumstances of them, which were appointed by God, and foretold in prophecy, and of which he had perfect knowledge:
Do you not know, O children of God? How this man suffered for you?
The fifth word of Jesus is His only human expression of His physical suffering. Jesus is now in shock. The wounds inflicted upon him in the scourging, the flesh hanging off of his back, the blood flowing freely from his wounds, the sweat running into his wounds, the crowning with thorns.
His arms stretched out and the nailing of His hands upon the cross are now taking their toll, especially after losing blood on the three-hour walk through the city of Jerusalem to Golgotha on the Via Dolorosa, called the Way of suffering.
The wounds were highly inflamed, and a raging fever was caused, usually, by the sufferings on the cross, and this was accompanied by insupportable thirst.
It fulfilled Psalm 22:15, “My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death” (Psalm 22:15).
After hanging on the Cross for hours, without a drink of water, His tongue stuck to the roof of His mouth, and He could barely speak.
Augustine said, “The cross was a pulpit, in which Christ preached his love to the world.” It’s true! He suffered on the Cross to pay the penalty for your sin because He loves you! He went through the agony and pain to save you from eternal suffering because He loves you!
Separation of the Son from the Father.
For the first time in history, the unity of the Trinity is broken.
All of the spiritual pain that Jesus endured when his Father turned his face away from him as he took upon himself the sins of the world—all of it was voluntarily accepted and voluntarily endured by Jesus Christ for the glory of his heavenly Father and for the eternal well-being of his people. Nothing that happened to Jesus that day caught him by surprise. None of it was unforeseen. All of it was anticipated and taken into account by Jesus when he made that fateful prayer in Gethsemane, "Not my will but yours be done" (Luke 22:42).
Jesus thirsts in a spiritual sense as well. He thirsts for love. He thirsts for the love of his Father, who has forsaken him during this dreadful hour when He must fulfill his mission all alone.
On the Cross, Jesus was pierced in the heart with a spear, so the sins of our hearts could be pardoned. He wore a crown of piercing thorns, so that the sins of our minds could be forgiven. His hands were nailed to the Cross so that the sins we commit with our hands could be pardoned. His feet were nailed to the wood so the sins we commit by walking to them and in them could be justified. And He thirsted till His tongue stuck to the roof of His mouth, horrible thirst! to heal the sins of our mouths.
“He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:5-6).
The Apostle Peter tells us that Jesus “bare our sins in his own body on the tree” (I Peter 2:24). Surely these verses make it plain that the thirst of Jesus was part of the suffering He went through, as our substitute, on the Cross.
John 19:28 “After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled”
He said “I thirst”
THE FIFTH WORD.
Turn with me to John 19:28. Hold your attention there while I paint a picture with words of what Jesus was experiencing.
Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished; or just upon being accomplished, were as good as finished; and as they were to be, would be in a very short time; even all things relating to his sufferings, and the circumstances of them, which were appointed by God, and foretold in prophecy, and of which he had perfect knowledge:
Do you not know, O children of God? How this man suffered for you?
The fifth word of Jesus is His only human expression of His physical suffering. Jesus is now in shock. The wounds inflicted upon him in the scourging, the flesh hanging off of his back, the blood flowing freely from his wounds, the sweat running into his wounds, the crowning with thorns.
His arms stretched out and the nailing of His hands upon the cross are now taking their toll, especially after losing blood on the three-hour walk through the city of Jerusalem to Golgotha on the Via Dolorosa, called the Way of suffering.
The wounds were highly inflamed, and a raging fever was caused, usually, by the sufferings on the cross, and this was accompanied by insupportable thirst.
It fulfilled Psalm 22:15, “My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death” (Psalm 22:15).
After hanging on the Cross for hours, without a drink of water, His tongue stuck to the roof of His mouth, and He could barely speak.
Augustine said, “The cross was a pulpit, in which Christ preached his love to the world.” It’s true! He suffered on the Cross to pay the penalty for your sin because He loves you! He went through the agony and pain to save you from eternal suffering because He loves you!
Separation of the Son from the Father.
For the first time in history, the unity of the Trinity is broken.
All of the spiritual pain that Jesus endured when his Father turned his face away from him as he took upon himself the sins of the world—all of it was voluntarily accepted and voluntarily endured by Jesus Christ for the glory of his heavenly Father and for the eternal well-being of his people. Nothing that happened to Jesus that day caught him by surprise. None of it was unforeseen. All of it was anticipated and taken into account by Jesus when he made that fateful prayer in Gethsemane, "Not my will but yours be done" (Luke 22:42).
Jesus thirsts in a spiritual sense as well. He thirsts for love. He thirsts for the love of his Father, who has forsaken him during this dreadful hour when He must fulfill his mission all alone.
On the Cross, Jesus was pierced in the heart with a spear, so the sins of our hearts could be pardoned. He wore a crown of piercing thorns, so that the sins of our minds could be forgiven. His hands were nailed to the Cross so that the sins we commit with our hands could be pardoned. His feet were nailed to the wood so the sins we commit by walking to them and in them could be justified. And He thirsted till His tongue stuck to the roof of His mouth, horrible thirst! to heal the sins of our mouths.
“He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:5-6).
The Apostle Peter tells us that Jesus “bare our sins in his own body on the tree” (I Peter 2:24). Surely these verses make it plain that the thirst of Jesus was part of the suffering He went through, as our substitute, on the Cross.
John 19:28 “After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled”
He said “I thirst”
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