Our Lord's First Appearance Before Pilate
Charles H. Spurgeon
John 18:38
I should like, if God spares us, to present to you on Sunday mornings the full story of our Savior's sufferings. We began last Lord's day by going with Him to the hall of Caiaphas, and it was a sadly solemn time when we beheld the Prince of Peace a prisoner, heard Him falsely accused and unjustly condemned, and then saw Him abused, till servants and abjects did spit in His face and make a mockery of Him. I hope that you will not be wearied with this subject. If so, it will be the fault of the preacher, for the subject is ever full and fresh: or if the preacher be not to blame, there will be something of censure due to His hearers. If we do grow tired of the story of the cross it will be a sad indication of secret soul-sickness, and it will be well to observe the symptom and hasten to the great Physician for healing. To true saints in a healthy condition there is no place more attractive than the place of our Lord's passion, where He accomplished the glorious work of our redemption. They love to linger along that Via Dolorosa which leads from Gethsemane to Golgotha; let us linger with them.
When I stand and view my Lord, like the bush in Horeb, burning but not consumed, I hear a voice saying unto me, "The place whereon thou standest is holy ground." Nothing is more holy than the person of our divine Master; it is, therefore, well to be with Him. The anguish which He endured when He devoted His person as a sacrifice for us is holy too, and so it is well to be with Him in His sufferings. His sorrows have a most sanctifying influence upon all who consider them with believing love. I am persuaded that if we lived more in the atmosphere of the cross sin would lose its power, and every grace would flourish. When we draw very near to Him and have fellowship with Him in His sufferings we raise a hue and cry against the sin which slew Him, and resolve to be revenged upon it by departing from it ...
Charles H. Spurgeon
John 18:38
I should like, if God spares us, to present to you on Sunday mornings the full story of our Savior's sufferings. We began last Lord's day by going with Him to the hall of Caiaphas, and it was a sadly solemn time when we beheld the Prince of Peace a prisoner, heard Him falsely accused and unjustly condemned, and then saw Him abused, till servants and abjects did spit in His face and make a mockery of Him. I hope that you will not be wearied with this subject. If so, it will be the fault of the preacher, for the subject is ever full and fresh: or if the preacher be not to blame, there will be something of censure due to His hearers. If we do grow tired of the story of the cross it will be a sad indication of secret soul-sickness, and it will be well to observe the symptom and hasten to the great Physician for healing. To true saints in a healthy condition there is no place more attractive than the place of our Lord's passion, where He accomplished the glorious work of our redemption. They love to linger along that Via Dolorosa which leads from Gethsemane to Golgotha; let us linger with them.
When I stand and view my Lord, like the bush in Horeb, burning but not consumed, I hear a voice saying unto me, "The place whereon thou standest is holy ground." Nothing is more holy than the person of our divine Master; it is, therefore, well to be with Him. The anguish which He endured when He devoted His person as a sacrifice for us is holy too, and so it is well to be with Him in His sufferings. His sorrows have a most sanctifying influence upon all who consider them with believing love. I am persuaded that if we lived more in the atmosphere of the cross sin would lose its power, and every grace would flourish. When we draw very near to Him and have fellowship with Him in His sufferings we raise a hue and cry against the sin which slew Him, and resolve to be revenged upon it by departing from it ...
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