The Cross Of Christ - [John 19]

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If you would please take your Bibles and open them up to the gospel of John the fourth gospel
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Gospel of John if you have one of the pew Bibles the blue ESV Bible you look be looking for page 905 905
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I'd like to read a portion of John chapter 19 this morning is a little bit different of a service where We're going to not have a service this evening
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But we're going to carry through this morning service, and it all is pointing to the cross It is all
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Christ centered the message even so and a little prepare us Lord willing for the communion table
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Which will follow the sermon John chapter 19 beginning in verse 17
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So they took Jesus And he went out bearing his own cross to the place called the place of a skull which in Aramaic is
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Aramaic is called Golgotha There they crucified him and with him two others one on either side in Jesus between them verse 19
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Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross it read Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews Many of the
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Jews read this inscription for the place where Jesus was crucified Was near the city and it was written in Aramaic in Latin and in Greek So the chief priest of the
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Jews said to Pilate do not write the king of the Jews But rather this man said I am king of the Jews Pilate answered what
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I have written I have written when the soldiers had crucified Jesus They took his garments and divided them into four parts one part for each soldier also his tunic
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But the tunic was seamless woven one piece from top to bottom So they said to one another let us not tear it, but let us cast lots to see whose it shall be
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This was to fulfill the scripture which says they divided my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots
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So the soldiers did these things verse 25 But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister
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Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene When Jesus saw his mother and his disciple whom he loved standing nearby
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He said to his mother woman behold your son And he said to the disciple behold your mother and from that hour the disciple took her into his own home
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After this Jesus knowing that all was now finished said to fulfill the scripture
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I thirst a Jar full of sour wine stood there So they put a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth
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When Jesus had received the sour wine He said it is finished and he bowed his head and he gave up his spirit may the
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Lord bless Even the reading of the Word of God to our ears this morning I'd like for you to to speak this morning
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Concerning a portion of this text, but by way of introduction Sometimes in the
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English language, there are short phrases that make us stop and take notice In the military you might hear halt who goes there and I wonder if they even say that anymore
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Law enforcement might say license and registration, please On the golf course you might hear through the trees for and you're going to respond
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Most likely by ducking or covering your head in the doctor's office. Please sit down.
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I have something to tell you gripping Serious words from a friend. Maybe I have some good news and some bad news and from your boss.
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You're fired And on a construction site look out below These types of phrases would cause us to react to respond and I believe that these are these are secular phrases or phrases from Our earthly life, but there are gripping phrases in the
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Bible. The Word of God is powerful It's quick and it's alive and many of you could think of some especially in this setting of the crucifixion of the
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Lord Jesus Maybe on the cross you remember his words those penetrating words. My god.
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My god Why have you forsaken me or maybe recollect his words to the thief dying on his side truly?
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I say to you today you will be with me in paradise or even these Unbelievable words from the lips of our loving
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Savior Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing My three favorite is
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English words on the cross. It's in the Greek. It's one but in in in the English It's three those three words are it is finished
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But this morning I'd like to zero in on two words recorded by the Apostle John that are very astonishing
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Very telling and I trust as we consider them they will tell us more of the person in the work of the
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Lord Jesus Christ and I hope that this message will be helpful in preparing us all
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We who name the name of Christ to be able to come to the communion table. What are these two words?
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Well, if you'll look if you'll look in the text we see In verse 28, it says that after this that Jesus knew that all things were accomplished
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He said so that the scriptures might be fulfilled. He says these two words.
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I thirst I thirst And I believe that these if we would consider these two words and consider this context.
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We we could be Encouraged we could be brought to bow Before the
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Lord to worship him even more and certainly will be prepared to come to the table first and foremost
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I want to to say that these two words my first point Say of these two words that they speak of the event the humanity of the
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Lord Jesus Christ We know of Christ's deity We know that there is a scripture like 1st
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Timothy chapter 3 verse 16, which says without controversy Great is the mystery of godliness.
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God was manifest in the flesh and there you have it God's Word declaring that God himself came in the flesh and oh how we adore and worship and admire our
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Lord in his majesty and We bow before the truth even as we sang the songs that we sang this morning of his wonder and glory and splendor as being
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God truly In his deity or being God a very God but also in the scriptures
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It brings out his humanity that he is fully man And the wonderful truth is that these two truths are perfectly joined in one person
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Jesus is the Son of Man Jesus is the Son of God the nature of God and the nature of man joined at Bethlehem and the
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Apostle John put it this way in John chapter 1 verse 14 and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory is of the only begotten of the
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Father full of grace and truth Jesus became what he was not before a man locked in time
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Though he never ceased to be what he had always been before For he had always been the eternal
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Son of God who has Micah prophesied regarding Jesus and Micah 5 to Bethlehem out of thee shall come forth unto me
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That is to be the ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been from old and from everlasting
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Jesus is goings forth have been from everlasting and here in our text
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We will survey a portion of the sufferings of Christ upon the cross and these two words
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I thirst Suffering the Lord Jesus suffering in his human body and that is embodied in these two words
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I thirst there never is a question for many when it comes To the the the deity of the
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Lord Jesus Christ in the scriptures our Bibles have pretty remarkable Records of Christ divine abilities
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Jesus reads men's minds. He knows their words before they will speak them
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He possesses all power over nature like wind and waves and plants and trees and fish and animals and food and water
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He ruled over diseases like fevers and sicknesses and maladies He had complete power over demons and cast them out by his word
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He was the king over death and hell and Satan and every created being but also we have in the scriptures proof of his humanity and It was a sinless humanity some biblical accounts of Christ's humanity are just the plain
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Initial record of the actual birth of the Lord Jesus given us at the beginning of the Gospels particularly in Matthew 1 and in verse 25 where Mary it says that Mary brought forth her firstborn son and Joseph called his name
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Jesus There was a physical birth a real birth a real delivery of a human baby though.
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This babe was God wrapped in human flesh Later on in his life.
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We see in Luke 2 52 the child Jesus increased in wisdom and stature that means he grew
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Physically and as a boy in the temple later on we see that he's sitting among the teachers Listening to them and asking them questions and asked and actually confounding those teachers and as a man
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He was to show his humanity. He was wearied in body John 4 6 where he's at the at the well with the woman
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He became hungry John Matthew 4 2 he slept mark 4 38
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He marveled mark 6 6 and those two words other two words in the
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Bible that are quite riveting in John 1135 Jesus wept he prayed
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Luke 10 21 He groaned John 1130 and here in our text and John 19 and in verse 28
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We are stricken by these two words. I thirst Now, why should these words arrest us?
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Why should they be so riveting to us? Because God does not thirst
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Angels in heaven do not thirst the Saints in glory do not thirst But what a contrast we see here in our text the
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Son of Man Jesus enters this sin -plagued world of sorrow and as the man of sorrow and acquainted with grief
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We see that it would be written of him Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren meaning
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Jesus was made in the likeness of sinful flesh He endures the cross and on that cross in his human body and in his humanity he utters these two words
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So first and foremost we it is a remarkable thing to us As we see and consider these two words is that they speak to us of the humanity of Christ here.
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He is in a body agonizing upon the cross Suffering for our sins and he comes to the place where he utters those words
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I thirst if Jesus had not come as a man. He could never have died for us a
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Man must die for men if there was no humanity of Christ That would mean there would be no taking away of our sin upon himself
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If there was no body, there would be no acceptable sacrifice if there was no blood Then there would be no forgiveness of our sins
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And all my friends we rejoice don't we and we bow this morning in our hearts? We are awestruck and that our
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God would send his son to take upon himself the form of man live in a body walk upon the earth live a perfect life die a
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Substitutionary death and we see the humanity of Christ vividly portrayed in these two words.
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I thirst But there's more than just this speaking to his humanity
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Secondly these two words tell us of the intensity of the sufferings of Christ These two words
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I thirst tell us of the intensity of Christ's sufferings And my friends the cross of Christ was no light matter, even though Jesus was
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God who was clothed in flesh This was not a skip in the park for him.
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It was a devastating means of death A .w. Tozer wrote quote the old cross is a symbol of death
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It stands for the abrupt violent end of a human being The man in Roman times who took up his cross and started down the road had already said goodbye to his friends
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He was not coming back. He was not going out to have his life redirected
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He was not going out, but he was going out to have it ended the cross made no compromise
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It modified nothing it spared nothing it slew all of the man completely and for good
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The cross did not try to keep on good terms with its victim It struck cruel and hard and when it had finished its work the man was no more
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Note the physical sufferings if you consider the life of Christ and you read maybe the testimony and some of it we heard
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When we began reading this portion of the text where they where they took Jesus up to Golgotha to crucify him
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What led up even to that point where Jesus would utter these two profound words?
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each event that I will list here will contribute its part to bring such a thirst in such a
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Situation in such a condition upon the body of the Lord Jesus Christ You remember there was the
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Last Supper with his disciples and his lengthy message some don't realize but if you read
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John chapter 13 and 14 and 15 and 16 that's at the time of that last meal with his disciples that lengthy discourse in that discourse with with Judas as he's going and preparing to To betray the
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Lord Jesus and then in John chapter 17, we have that that tiring event
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Maybe somewhat discouraging event where the disciples were sleeping and Jesus asked them to to stay awake
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While he prayed and there that in John chapter 17 We have the true
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Lord's Prayer and then after that it is on to the Garden of Gethsemane Where Jesus passes through a period of excruciating agony?
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His soul is exceedingly sorrowful and Luke being a medical doctor tells us that Jesus's Sweat was as it were great drops of blood
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Here, I believe weighty thoughts regarding man's cursed sin was heavy upon Christ and particularly in mine was the
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Father's judgment the inevitable cup of God's wrath upon our sin that Jesus would soon drink to rid us of sins awful curse
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Bearing down upon him and hereto in the garden his thirst begins to heighten
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He is then confronted by Judas and the Roman soldiers in the garden and is arrested and brought before Caiaphas in the middle of the night
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Jesus is unjustly examined and condemned and he is held until early morning
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He is tired and thirsty Most likely no one has extended any common courtesy
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There's been no drink for Jesus all hell is relentlessly pushing forward to do with Christ as God The Father had predetermined to be done
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And Jesus has done. No wrong. He is completely innocent He is the spotless
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Lamb of God who came to take away the sin of the world From there Jesus goes before Pilate and suffers the abuse of a lengthy trial
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He is later scourged with a flesh -ripping whip and then led across to the city to Herod's judgment
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All the pushing and all the shoving and all the mistreatment adds to the physical and mental strain upon the
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Lord's body and Jesus Jesus's thirst grows The brutal and heartless soldiers mock him.
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They beat him mercilessly they scourge him and then he is sent back to Pilate who passes the death sentence upon him and now with a lacerated back a
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Bruised and beaten body his brow pierced is pierced with a crown of thorns
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His body is bleeding and his face is also bleeding from where they plucked out his beard with their bare hands
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He is then made to carry the cross in the heat of the Sun up up Golgotha's Hill He is stripped of his clothing
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The soldiers throw his racked body down upon a rough wooden cross and meticulously and forcefully drive large nails through his hands and feet
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They lift and then drop the cross violently into the hole dug to receive it and the shock of that impact riddles
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Jesus's body with intense and Unimaginable pain and for three hours he hangs naked in the heat of the
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Sun With everybody looking on some jeering and some mocking and some in shock and tears
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His body is out of sorts. His breathing is becoming labored. His heart is pounding
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Jesus has a burning thirst But he does not cry for mercy
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You don't hear him reversing his decision and asking the father to take away the agony
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No, Jesus bears the shame and endures the cross For he knows he must die so that we might live
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So that we might be purchased by God and as is recorded in Isaiah chapter 53 in Majestic silence he is numbered with the transgressors and it pleases the father to bruise him
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Sin is being dealt with upon this old rugged cross and the only way that is acceptable to God For without the shedding of blood it says in Hebrews 9 22.
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There is no remission of sins No forgiveness if this precious blood is not shed
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The soul of Jesus is poured out in death and he bears the sin of his people
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He is wounded for your transgressions in Mayan and by his stripes We will be healed his soul has made an offering for our sin and the
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Lord is laying upon him the iniquity of us all He is bearing the awful load upon himself
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For us brethren for us and all the wonder of it all like a sheep before her shearers is silent
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So the Lord Jesus did not open his mouth and as the end draws near this crucifixion being the most dreadful and agonizing death and it is accompanied with an
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Excruciating thirst here what the commentator Albert Barnes wrote about this thirst
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Was one of the most distressing circumstances attending the crucifixion the wounds were highly inflamed and a raging fever was caused usually by the suffering on the cross and This was accompanied by insupportable thirst
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Barnes went on later described an actual crucifixion of a Turkish officer
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Which was recorded in Arabic manuscript where it stated and I quote the man thus remained on the cross
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From Friday until Sunday when he died this Turkish officer He was patient and silent without wailing but looking around him to the right and left upon the people.
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He begged for water and None was given him. It flowed all around him. He gazed upon it and longed for one drop and He complained of thirst all the first day until someone was merciful and gave him a drink
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Jesus is at that point He is dehydrated here upon the cross.
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He is bleeding profusely. He is exhausted He is fevered his wounds are inflamed his joints are dislocated
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This is extreme. There is extreme pressure upon his heart The wrath of God is falling upon him
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The judgment of God is falling upon him the father's faiths has been turned away from him
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Jesus has already cried out those words my god my god Why have you forsaken me as it says in 2nd
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Corinthians 5 21? He was made sin for us at this point This is taking place that that new no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him his extreme
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Pressure upon his heart life is escaping He's about to die The intense pain is shooting through his hands and feet as he pushes up on the metal nails so that he can catch his next
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Breath and those nails are biting into his nervous system and the psalmist Describes his agony in psalm 22 here these words as I read from verse 1
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Tip similar. These are messianic prophecies. This is a prophecy of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ hundreds of years before Anyone ever invented this form of execution psalm 22 1 my god my god.
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Why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me from the words of my groaning and then down in verse 6?
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But I am I am a worm and not a man scorned by mankind and despised by the people
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Verse 7 all who see me mocked me. They make mouths at me. They wag their heads verse 11
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Be not far from me for trouble is near and there is none to help Verse 12 many bulls encompass me strong bulls of Bashan surround me they open wide their mouths at me like ravening and roaring like a ravening and roaring lion and Then listen to these words as they describe the physical anguish of Christ's sufferings upon the cross again prophesied foretold
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Hundreds of years before Christ was to suffer and the record that we have here in John chapter 19
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It says in Psalm 22 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint
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My heart is like wax it is melted within my breast My strength is dried up like a pot shirt.
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My tongue sticks to my jaws you lay me in the dust of death verse 16 for dogs encompass me a
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Company of evildoers encircles me. They have pierced my hands and feet
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I count all my bones they stare and gloat over me They divide my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots
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And may I ask us all this morning? Why is this taking place?
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I? thought a crucifixion Was a cruel method of capital punishment for thieves for for crooks for the wretched outcasts of society and here we see
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God's Holy Son the Lord Jesus dying out of love for sinners Why the cross why the suffering why these other phrases and these two words in particular
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I thirst well, it is not because men messed up God's plan a and this good teacher was
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Misunderstood and rejected and framed and unjustly crucified and it's all a shame and it's just a waste of a good life
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No, no a million times. No, this is God's For ordained means for the doing away of your sin and for the doing away of my sin
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For the perfect payment to satisfy God's wrath and to bring salvation to everyone who would believe upon Jesus Christ to the saving of their souls
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Every detail we read here in the Gospels is occurring exactly as God the
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Father had planned Jesus was crucified Because of our miserable wretched and rebellious and hideous sins
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All of the misery the horrendous judgment of God falling upon him here on Calvary and the giving of his life
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It all came upon Christ because we have broken God's law We do not love
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God as we should and we live in rebellion and our guilt is being dealt with here and his sufferings
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And I'll just take a little bit of an aside here because there are times in our lives when
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I don't think that we take sin Seriously, there was a hymn writer who wrote words
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Said you who who you who think of sin, but lightly Here its guilt may estimate mark the sacrifice
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Appointed and it's speaking of the sacrifice or the cross look at the cross If you if you take sin lightly or think of sin lightly look at the cross and look what sin has done
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When we survey the wondrous cross and when you and I do that Do we realize what our sins have caused?
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And what and what in our lives we want to entertain and to play with sin
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We want to continue on in rebellion Oh We don't understand the weight of it all the seriousness of how offensive our sin is to our
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Holy God And I ask how many of us would jump into a pit of poisonous snakes and think nothing of it
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Certainly, we wouldn't and yet Some of us jump into the pit of sin and play with it
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Even today we play with sin and we think that we will not be bitten You let your pride rise up in your breasts
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You fan the flame of passion and lusts you let bitterness and anger fester You take one more look you take one more drink one more horrible thought one more bout of stealing one more angry outburst at spouse or parent or neighbor or friend and We don't consider the evil
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What evil that that sin has done and the devastation upon our
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Savior and specifically? Especially to the child of God purchased by the blood of Christ Shouldn't sin be so exceedingly sinful for us that we turn and run from it
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Every one of them has contributed to the agonies of our that our Lord suffered which brought him to the place where he said
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I thirst Our miserable sins nailed our blessed Lord to that tree each transgression brought the hammer blow down upon those nails each sin
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Contributed to his death for us and our attitude towards all sin should be a disgust an abhorrence and it should promote an attitude of repentance and Forsaking and fleeing from it.
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We sing a hymn Don't we entitled I gave my life for thee and some of the words go
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Speaking of the Lord Jesus if saying these words I suffered much for thee more than the tongue can tell of Bitterest agony to rescue thee from hell.
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I gave I gave my life for thee What has thou given for me in there?
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It says he suffered much more than our tongue could ever tell of bitterest
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Agony, you know Christians. He did this for us My brothers and sisters in Christ Do we want to open the door to unimaginable sins and shame and may it never be?
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We used to be the servants of sin, but now that we've been set free by the work of Christ Sin should never rule over us the power of sin has been broken
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What have we been looking at so far? Well first we've seen first of all that in these two words
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I thirst We see the the wonder of God having dealing with our sin
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We in it and in the way that God did that was in his humanity God coming in human flesh and here in our
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Lord's body being racked with pain at this point we've come to the place where he is beyond being parched and From his dried lips and swollen tongue.
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We hear these words. I thirst What an extreme expression of agony and all let us never read these two words again without considering What brought our
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Savior to speak them? Jesus first Unimaginable This ought to stop us in a trip in our tracks the
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Lord who spoke and water was created Jesus thirsts
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The one who brought the oceans and the seas and the rivers and streams and lakes into existence
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He the Creator thirsts in agony The one who gave
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Israel water out of a rock for 40 years in the wilderness the one who turned water to wine the one who?
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controls every rain cloud the one who makes the rain to fall on the just and on the
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Unjust he is thirsty. Oh My brothers and sisters in Christ mark these two words.
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Well, he is in this place Undeservedly, we deserve to be executed.
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We deserve the just payment for our sins But he dies in our place and by coming to him by believing upon the
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Lord Jesus Christ that he died and was buried and rose again all to pay for our sins and make things right with God and to Bring us into a right relationship with God the
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Father He thirsted in physical agony and on to death so that we might never spiritually thirst again
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Men may deny it Yet we do live in a dry and thirsty land full of people who are hungry and thirsty and not able to find anything upon Earth to satisfy the need of their thirsty souls
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There are mad rushes for wealth and position and fame and worldly passion and pleasures and honor and status
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Wisdom and knowledge and exploration and philosophy looking within looking without looking into outer space
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For the answer why because God made us to be worshippers of God There is an aching void in the soul of every lost sinner and as a sinner you will never be satisfied
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Until that empty void of your soul is completely filled And man does not have the capacity within himself to fill it nor does any man or religious?
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organization or secular institution have the answer Man cannot find the secret that brings peace to the soul and rest to the troubled spirit in anything here below No, man has the means to rid themselves of their sin problem
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Man will never be satisfied until he is satisfied in Christ I think Piper said something along those lines man will never be satisfied until he is fully and completely satisfied in Christ the thirst of your soul will not be quenched with a religion that does not teach about the need to repent of your sin
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And come to Christ for salvation and forgiveness Jesus told a woman at a well that as she drank of the physical water that she could get out of that well
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That she would be thirsty again And this is true of every religion which tells people that they must do religious works or reform their lives with hopes of gaining favor
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With God that will never happen And I tell you this morning that any religion that preaches another
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Christ or another way to get to God Besides the finished work of the Lord Jesus that that religion will leave you empty
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Your life will remain unchanged and you will not be accepted by God and you will be left spiritually thirsty in your soul without Christ You are separated from the life -giving water the fountain of living waters
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And you are drinking from a broken cistern or a means whereby and they had carved out out of stone in the
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Old Testament little reservoirs to hold water and You're drinking out of one of those without Christ You're drinking out of one of those that has cracks and holes in it and it will not hold water and it cannot hold water
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What should the sinner do who is in great need for their spiritual thirst to be met?
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God has set the answer before you here in the cross of Christ that we have read of in John chapter 19
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Here in in this chapter. We see Jesus Christ upon the cross Doing his divine work of redemption here upon the cross
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We see our great merciful loving God our God who is the Savior by nature Jesus has come
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God manifests in the flesh Didn't the angels tell the shepherds in Luke chapter 2 and in verse 11 for unto you is born this day in the city of David a
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Savior who is Christ the Lord and on a hill far away truly stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suffering and shame and We love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners
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Was slain and the dearest and best is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ He bears the awful load
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He is our substitute He does for us what we could never do for ourselves
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The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost His body is beaten and crushed for us and in these two words
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I thirst first of all we heard that it speaks of his humanity and Secondly, it tells us of his the intensity of Christ's sufferings
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Which was an answer For man's most urgent need his sin sick disease soul but thirdly and hopefully quickly
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These last two words that Jesus spoke here these two words that Jesus spoke speak of God's faithfulness to fulfill all prophecy concerning Jesus Christ the
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Messiah I was just absolutely thrilled when I when I saw this and I looked at this and studied this in this verse
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Because if you'll notice in this verse, it says I'll read from the the ESV John 1928 after this
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Jesus knowing that all was now finished said to fulfill the scripture.
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I thirst John MacArthur quote in his Omniscience in Jesus's Omniscience, he knew there was only one remaining prophecy to be fulfilled and quote and that prophecy is a prophecy from Psalm those taken notes psalm 69 and in verse 21
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Where the Bible says and it's a messianic prophecy It speaks to Jesus the life of Jesus things hundreds of years ago written
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That would be would become true. There were hundreds of prophecies concerning Christ and this one in in Psalm 69 and in verse 21
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The Bible says they gave me poison or your translation might say gall
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They gave me poison or gall for food or for my meat and for my first my thirst
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They gave me sour wine or your version might say vinegar to drink.
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They gave me poison for food and For my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
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Now. Can you imagine what it would have taken? for a group of people to try to get together let's say the disciples are going to try to get together and take all the
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Old Testament prophecies and Figure out a way to make everything occur in the life of Christ So that all those prophecies would be fulfilled
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You see this was written the the testimony of the Gospels is written after the fact
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I mean the disciples didn't know half the time what was going on So they could not have orchestrated this and the
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Roman soldiers who who gave Jesus this to drink did not orchestrate this They were just doing what they were doing.
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They meant it for evil. But what God was doing is being meant for good God's purposes are being unfolded here before us and what's what's uncanny here
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In this and what's so remarkable in this text? It says of Jesus knowing that it's accomplished
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Jesus knowing that his work is Finished it's coming to its climax to its conclusion
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The payment is has been made and we're going to see him right after this. He utters his very last words
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It's it is finished but here it says in this verse and if you if you don't see this and you've ever read this before you could
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Just pass right by it. It says after this Jesus knowing that all was now finished said
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Jesus said this To intentionally I believe fulfill
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Scripture Jesus said what he said he said those words I thirst
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To fulfill Scripture because this there is just one last prophecy while Jesus is alive on the cross
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There's one left. There's one more prophecy that must be fulfilled and every word every promise every
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Prophecy that God has given to us in the scriptures will come to pass and our blessed
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Savior knows the scripture He knows the prophecies and he knows that there's one less left
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He has accomplished the work of our redemption and Jesus knew That by saying
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I thirst that this would prompt the Roman soldiers to give him something to drink
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Not water not good wine. It had to be specific. Those would not fulfill the prophecy
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It had to be sour wine or vinegar and you can go and study what that means and why they had it
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Do they have it for medicinal purposes? Or for wounds or or to give them something to drink or or to drug them
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Jesus refused it at the beginning Because he wanted to suffer with all of his faculties this payment that he made for us but but he needed to drink this and So he said
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I thirst and It prompted them To do something and we see it in verse 29 now
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There was a vessel there was there was set a vessel full of vinegar. Now. That was just there by accident, right?
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That vessel just just there by accident Or did the Roman soldiers I mean would they be the ones who would be fulfilling
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Scripture No, they're the enemies of the cross and the enemies of Christ. They're not going to do this God saw to it that this was set here
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There was set a vessel full of vinegar or the the gall or the sour wine I mean and they filled a sponge
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With that sour wine or vinegar and put it upon his sip and they put it to his mouth and in verse 30
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When Jesus therefore had received that sour wine Jesus drank it and glory to God the last prophecy foretold of the
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Messiah in the Old Testament while he was alive came to pass and He's as sure as we are standing here brothers and sisters in Christ Every word of God that God gives will come to pass
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Every promise that God has made concerning you and me will come to pass and you can just take that to the bank you can
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Think about that and how that ought to encourage you Every promise and whatever it is. You have eternal life.
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You can know that you have eternal life. You are forgiven Just go back to them all it will encourage us but look here in this text.
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I thirst prompts the soldiers he drinks he drinks of it
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God Has meant to fulfill his perfect plan in Christ this last prophecy
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While Jesus is alive is fulfilled every detail every prophecy has come to pass now concerning Christ our
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Savior God is faithful Jesus is obedient. What an awesome God we have the
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Savior has come He really has suffered and because of this
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Jesus has done Jesus has done not we have done But Jesus has done everything necessary to satisfy
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God's wrath To make full atonement for our sins to bring us to God in the cross of Christ.
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We have seen The remedy for man's sin disease soul and on the cross with its cruel treatment and Jesus speaks very few words on the cross
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Some of them we remember to his father as I said earlier my god my god Why have you forsaken me and again to his father forgive them father?
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They know not what they do at the end when he dies. He says into thy hands I commend my spirit to the thief beside him.
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He says today you will be with me in paradise to his mother Mary He says woman behold your son to the beloved disciple
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John He says behold your mother for the crowd watching. He says it is finished and again in our text this morning he says
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I thirst I Wonder if you've ever considered the significance of these two words
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Have you ever connected these two words with your life with your sin and with your salvation
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Do you now see the beauty and wonder of every single recorded word in Scripture?
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My dear sister for you. Yes for you Jesus bore all of your sins in his body upon the cross that you being dead to sins
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Should live under righteousness and by his stripes so that you would be healed You have been wonderfully and powerfully saved by Christ My dear brother in Christ for you
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Yes for you Christ Jesus once suffered for sins the just one for you the unjust one that he might bring you to God For he was put to death in the flesh and he was raised up from the grave and because he was raised up you will be to all
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Christians Jesus thirsted so that we would never thirst again for he has he said that if anyone drinks of the water that he gives
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Meaning the spiritual life that is received because of his person and because of his work. They will never ever thirst again
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But there are some here this morning. I've spoken to the Christian. There are some here this morning that are listening to my voice and Their minds and hearts are wandering far from what
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I am saying Dear precious lost one here this morning If you do not avail yourselves of the mercies of God in Christ Jesus, you will spiritually perish
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You will eternally perish You are one week closer to breathing your last breath
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Your heart only has so many heartbeats and this could be the day that you step into eternity
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If you die in your sins having rejected Jesus Christ Unwilling to bow your knee and to beg for mercy you will cry out eternally in thirst why do
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I say that because the Bible tells us of a rich man in Luke chapter 16 and Tells of his request where I read in Luke 16 22
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The rich man also died and was buried and in hell or Hades being in torment.
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He lifted up his eyes He calls out father Abraham have mercy on me and send
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Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am in anguish in this flame an eternal torment that Jesus Christ Foretold of he said these shall go away into everlasting punishment
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But the righteous into life eternal the goats and the sheep the blessedness of the father
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The being turned away from the father's presence for all eternity and spending an
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Eternity separated from God an eternal fire where there is this anguish in the flame that rich man
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These 2 ,000 years later plus years later is still no doubt begging for one drop of water to cool his burnings
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There's no hope for him. He has no more opportunities to respond to the gospel call
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But there is hope for you You are still on this side of death. You are still on this side of eternity
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God is merciful and God will save you if you call upon the name of the Lord There is a fork in the road right before you this morning.
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What steps will you take? What direction will you go in? If you do nothing and go on without Christ Then the wrath of God like a sword hangs over your head and one day to come swinging down upon your eternal soul or As I said earlier you can call upon the name of the
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Lord Jesus believing He died for you upon the cross was buried and was raised again
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And if you do that, you will be saved. That's a promise remember The prophecy in the
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Old Testament if God was going to see to it that that prophecy in Psalm 6921 where it said that Jesus the
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Messiah would drink of that sour wine That they would give him hundreds of years in the future if God brought that to pass if you call upon the name of the
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Lord the Bible says in Romans 10 13 for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved if you do that God will keep that promise to you.
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He will save you. You don't think he will but he will he'll wipe out your sins Christ has died for sinners and if you believe that he has died for you, then you will be saved
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God will make it come to pass You will be declared righteous Not guilty in the court of God's law.
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You'll become a child of God and completely forgiven of every one of your sins you will either have it where Jesus has suffered anguish and Jesus thirsted on the cross for you and you and he has set you free through his perfect payment or you will have it your way without Christ without grace without hope without forgiveness and you suffer eternal anguish and Like that man still in hell, please send somebody to dip their finger
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Just can imagine the amount a small amount of water. He was begging for To be quenched to have his thirst quench.
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Oh, may you come to him today two little words here in our text two little words
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I thirst two powerful words Two arresting words yet two of the most beautiful words
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Which we are going to hear in our ears this morning. There's no doubt about it. You'll remember
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Lord willing. I thirst These two words that are part of God's wonderful words of life.
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They're part of the good news of Jesus Christ They're part of the record of the sacrifice the suffering of our blessed
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Savior Who is not dead in the ground but is raised again and he sits at the right hand of the
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Father and he intercedes For those whom he has called to be his very own the good news of our
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Savior here in this text Our Lord and our God the Lord Jesus Christ, and I hope that every time now when you open your
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Bibles And you read these two words That you will remember first is humanity
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Second you will remember the intensity of his sufferings in the blessed wonder that God sent
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His Son is the only answer for our urgent need for our sins so that we might be saved and somehow when you read those words
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I thirst and you think of that's that prophecy in Psalm 61 69 verse 21
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You will also see and remember the faithfulness of God to keep his word in the fulfillment of this
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Final prophecy and the amazing obedience of the Lord Jesus who could have kept quiet But he speaks out
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I thirst The soldiers give him something to drink and when he partakes of it in verse 30 he said it is
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Finished and he bowed his head and he gave up the ghost and Jesus died
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To God be the glory Great things he hath done So loved he the world that he gave us his son.
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Let's pray a father we're guilty many times of reading the
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Word of God and We pass over We do not consider
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Some of the words that are there some of those Phrases that ought to rivet us and grip our hearts
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They should be astounding to us and It is the prayer of this preacher this morning
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That we could never look at those two words again without thinking of the great and the amazing and the wonderful Love God demonstrated toward us his enemies
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When Christ Jesus his son was given and died for us thirsting to fulfill prophecies thirsting because he was
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God wrapped in flesh and Thirsting because our sin was being taken care of through his perfect payment upon the cross
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Forgive us Lord for for not Taking things and portions of Scripture like this as serious as we should
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And for us to just go on even as we think about in our lives in the great
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Horrendous Suffering that came upon our Savior because of our sin
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Forgive us for we have sinned against you even this week even this day and we're thankful that you're faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and As we now come to the table
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We pray O Lord God that it might be just a continuation of our worship
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That we would adore and that we would magnify and that we would love the