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Channel: REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN, COLLARD VALLEY COOK
Date: 07/04/2021

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

April 7th — Morning Reading 

"O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?" — Psalm 4:2 

An instructive writer has made a mournful list of the honors which the blinded people of Israel awarded to their long-expected King. 
(1.) They gave Him a procession of honor, in which Roman legionaries, Jewish priests, men and women, took a part, He Himself bearing His cross. This is the triumph which the world awards to Him who comes to overthrow man's dreadful enemies. Mocking shouts are His only expression of admiration, and cruel insults His only song of praise. 
(2.) They presented Him with the wine of honor. Instead of a golden cup of generous wine they offered Him the criminal's drug to send Him into a deathlike slumber, which He refused because He would preserve an uninjured taste wherewith to taste of death; and afterwards when He cried, "I thirst," they gave Him vinegar mixed with gall, thrust to His mouth upon a sponge. Oh! wretched, hateful inhospitality to the King's Son. 
(3.) He was provided with a guard of honor, who showed their esteem of Him by gambling over His garments, which they had seized as their trophy. Such was the bodyguard of the adored of heaven, a group of brutal gamblers. 
(4.) A throne of honor was found for Him upon the bloody tree; no easier place of rest would these rebellious men yield to their superior Lord. The cross was, in fact, the full expression of the world's feeling towards Him; "There," they seemed to say, "Thou Son of God, this is the way God Himself should be treated, could we reach Him." 
(5.) The title of honor was nominally "King of the Jews," but that the blinded nation distinctly rejected, and really called Him "King of thieves," by preferring Barabbas, and by placing Jesus in the place of highest shame between two thieves. His glory was thus in all things turned into shame by the sons of men, but it shall yet gladden the eyes of saints and angels, world without end. 

Edited by Tammy Nichols for easy reading.