There has been only One who has ever drunk this cup down to its very
dregs!
Cain has been drinking it for 5,000 years and finds that his punishment greater than he can bear but has not come to the dregs.
Judas had been drinking it for some 2000 years, often crying out with a groan that shakes Hell, "Oh that I had never been born! Oh that I had never seen or heard of the Lord Jesus Christ!" But he has not reached the dregs.
The fallen angels have not come near the dregs, for they have not arrived at the judgment of the Great Day.
The only One who has taken, tasted, drunk, and wrung out the bitterest of the bitter dregs has been the Judge Himself, the Lord Jesus!
Cain has been drinking it for 5,000 years and finds that his punishment greater than he can bear but has not come to the dregs.
Judas had been drinking it for some 2000 years, often crying out with a groan that shakes Hell, "Oh that I had never been born! Oh that I had never seen or heard of the Lord Jesus Christ!" But he has not reached the dregs.
The fallen angels have not come near the dregs, for they have not arrived at the judgment of the Great Day.
The only One who has taken, tasted, drunk, and wrung out the bitterest of the bitter dregs has been the Judge Himself, the Lord Jesus!
The universe saw Him with it at His lips. It was our cup of trembling;
the cup in which the wrath due to His people was mixed. What wrath, what woe! A
few drops made Him cry, "Now is my soul deeply troubled!" In the garden,
the sight of it wrung out the strange, mysterious words, "My soul is
exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death!" Though God-man, He staggered at what He
saw, and went on trembling.
The next day, on Calvary, He drank it all! I suppose the three hours of darkness may have been the time when He was drinking it down the very dregs; for then arose from His broken heart, the wail which so appealed to the heart of the Father, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!" As He drank the last drop, and cried out, "It is finished!" we may believe that the angels felt an inconceivable relief and even the Father Himself! So tremendous was the wrath and curse! The wrath and curse due to our sin!
Jesus drank that cup as the substitute for His innumerable people, given Him by the Father; and thereby freed them from ever tasting even one drop of that fierce wrath, that "cup of red wine, mixed with spices," with its dregs its unknown terrors!
The next day, on Calvary, He drank it all! I suppose the three hours of darkness may have been the time when He was drinking it down the very dregs; for then arose from His broken heart, the wail which so appealed to the heart of the Father, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!" As He drank the last drop, and cried out, "It is finished!" we may believe that the angels felt an inconceivable relief and even the Father Himself! So tremendous was the wrath and curse! The wrath and curse due to our sin!
Jesus drank that cup as the substitute for His innumerable people, given Him by the Father; and thereby freed them from ever tasting even one drop of that fierce wrath, that "cup of red wine, mixed with spices," with its dregs its unknown terrors!
[Andrew Bonar]
✞ ✞ ✞
Psalm 75:8 ... For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Matthew 20:22 ... But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
John 18:11 ... 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?❤
