For you fellas that have touched
this pulpit up here where I've been standing, go straight to
the restroom and wash your hands. Don't pass. Go. Don't collect
$200. Go straight to the bathroom and
wash your hands. X to 17. I want to read this again just
for the sake of those that might hear this, or will hear this
later, but also for you. It's needful for us to read a
scripture over and over. I forget this sometimes when
I'm preaching, that I've read it a hundred times by the time
I preach it, and you haven't. And we need to read the scripture
over and over and over, and we'll begin to see it. We'll begin
to get the message. Exodus 17 1 and all the congregation
of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin after
their journeys according to the commandment of the Lord and pitched
in Rephidim and there was no water for the people to drink
Now I'll make a few comments till we get down to our main
text When it says they journeyed according to the commandment
of the Lord, it means they were obeying the Lord. They were doing
the will of the Lord. The Lord led them to that place
and there was no water for the people to drink. Now that should
end this notion that when trouble comes upon a believer that he's
done something wrong to bring it upon him. You know, that's
what Job's friends, they insisted Job had done something wrong
for that trouble to come upon Job. That wasn't the case here. They were doing what God commanded. They were following the Lord.
So it's not always the case. But I'll tell you what is always
the case. God always leads His child and God leads His child
into trial. Verse 2, Wherefore the people
did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink.
And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? Wherefore do
ye tempt the Lord? And the people thirsted there
for water. Their thirst became more intense, and as it became
more intense, The complaint became more intense and the people murmured
against Moses and they said, wherefore is this that thou has
brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and
our cattle with thirst? Verse seven says, he called the
name of the place Massa and Meribah. Massa because of the chiding
of the children of Israel and Meribah because they tempted
the Lord saying, is the Lord among us or not? Now, we might
be prone to read that and say, after all they had seen God do
for them. But you know we ought to read
that and say, after all I've seen God do for me. Because every
believer made honest by God knows that is me, right there. That's
me. After all God's done for me,
How would I doubt God? We murmur and we doubt far too
often for a people whose God is absolutely sovereign. And we profess to worship a sovereign
God who's sovereign in salvation. We ought never murmur in doubt.
Never. The only thing God has to do
to show that our sin is still with us is to just give us just
a little trouble. One old writer said, we would
rather lean upon a cobweb of human resources than upon the
arm of an omnipotent, all-wise, and infinitely gracious God.
Isn't that true? We'd rather lean upon a cobweb
of human resources than upon the infinite, almighty hand of
God. But now you notice they had a
need, and I want to speak just a moment to you sitting here
without Christ. They had a need. They were without
water, and they were in a desert, it was dry land, and they were
thirsty. They were thirsty. I don't know
how close they were to dying of thirst, but they were very
thirsty. Now you that are without Christ,
Whoever you might be, you are a dry land. And you can't find
any life, that's what this water represents, is life. You can't
find any life in you, not in your goodness, not in your will,
not in your wisdom, not in your works. Nothing you do is going
to give you eternal life, nothing. You're in a worse place than
where they were right here. Now that's so. That's so. My prayer is that God would make
you to know just how dire of a situation you're in. I don't
even pray, Lord, save them. If He would do this first, He'll
save you. But I pray first to show you
your need of salvation. Sinners aren't being told today
in churches where the gospel is supposedly being preached.
People are not being told about sin. They're not being told that
all they are is sin. That what you do is, that's just
the fruit coming from what you are, brethren, sin. That's what
you are. And if you're never taught what
you are, that you sin, and that all you are is a sinner, why
would you ever have a need of a Savior? But here we see a people with
a need, and if God gives us a need, and He shows us what we are,
that's when we'll be thirsty. That's when we'll be thirsty.
for life, for righteousness, for holiness, for God, for acceptance,
for peace with God. That's when we'll be thirsty.
And the thirsty man will be filled. Christ said that. The thirsty
will be filled. Now look here in verse 4. And
Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto the people?
They be almost ready to stone me. Which means in their heart
they already have. Now here's our text, and the
Lord said unto Moses, every word's important here. The Lord said
unto Moses, go on before the people and take with thee of
the elders of Israel. He means leave the people, you're
going ahead of the people, you're gonna leave them behind, and
you're taking with you the elders of Israel, the 12 elders of the
12 tribes. And take thy rod wherewith thou
smotest the river, take in thine hand and go. Behold, now this
is God speaking, I will stand before thee there upon the rock
in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come
water out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so in
the sight of the elders of Israel, and he called the, we've seen
that part, Moses did it in the sight of the elders. Now, the
Holy Spirit used the apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians 10
in verse 4 to remove all doubt as to what this rock is. He said
the children of Israel did all drink the same spiritual drink
for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that
rock was Christ. That rock was Christ. Just like
Christ was in the burning bush when he called Moses and spoke
to Moses, Christ was in this rock. Christ was in this rock. Now here's what I want you to
get today from the message. Christ is the smitten rock. He is the smitten rock. And from
Him comes the living water. The living water which makes
those who believe on Him have eternal life so that we never
thirst again. We're not talking about physical
thirst, we're talking about spiritual things here. Christ is the smitten
rock who from Him comes the living water so that those who believe
on Him have eternal life. And they'll never thirst, they'll
never want, they'll never be lacking anything they need for
acceptance with God ever again. Now let me show you this, if
the Lord will enable me, best I can, I want to show you this.
First of all, Christ is the rock on which the Lord God stood. He said in verse 6, Behold, I
will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb. I will
stand before thee there on the rock in Horeb. This is God speaking. Now what is the significance
of this? before the foundation of the world, before anything
was created, God the Father stood on Christ Jesus His Son, the
Rock. God the Father stood on Christ
the Rock. God the Father purposed to create
a people to whom He would reveal His glory. and He would reveal
His glory by saving that people from their sins. This was what
God determined before anything had been put in motion, before
anything was made. God purposed to save a people
and reveal to them His glory in their salvation. And God the
Father chose His Son to be the one who would go forth and magnify
Him and glorify Him. He chose His Son, Christ the
Lord, to be that rock on which He rested His whole work. Christ
would go forth. He would manifest God's glory.
He would manifest His holy name, His holy character. He would
manifest how God is just and how He is justifier. He would
manifest the fullness of the Godhead in a body. And He would
do all this as He saved God's people from our sins. And God
the Father trusted that whole work to Christ His Son. He rested
it all into His hand. And so it all rested on Christ. He stood all on Christ's shoulder. Scripture says, unto us a child
is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon
his shoulder. He said in Isaiah 22.22, the
key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder. Everything rests on him. So he shall open and none shall
shut, and he shall shut and none shall open. Why did God do this? Ephesians 1.12 says that we should
be to the praise of God's glory who first trusted in Christ. God the Father is the first one
who ever trusted in Christ. And He saves His people so that
we would praise His glory who put it all in Christ's hand and
trusted Christ. He stood all on Christ the Rock.
But there's more. There's more than that. God stood
on the rock when Moses smote it. He said, I'm going to go
before you there and I'm going to stand on the rock and you
come and you smite the rock. I would be a little more than
intimidated to go forth and smite that rock. How about you? The
Lord was standing on that rock. And here's what he's teaching.
When Moses smote that rock, Moses smote God. Because the Lord Jesus
Christ, our substitute, is himself God. And that rock was Christ. Here's what he's teaching. Let
me read this to you from 1 John 3.16. Listen to this. 1 John
3.16. Hereby perceive we the love of
God. Now listen to this, because He
laid down His life for us. Hereby perceive we the love of
God, because He laid down His life for us. In order to redeem
our souls, God was in Christ. reconciling the world of His
elect unto Himself, not imputing our trespasses unto us. God was
in Christ. His name shall be called Emmanuel,
God with us. That man is God. That man, Christ
Jesus, is God. And on the cross, in order to
redeem our souls, God was forsaken by God. Don't try to figure that out.
Don't try to figure that out and say, well, I need to reason
everything out or I can't believe it. That ain't faith to begin
with. But you're not going to reason
this out. God forsook God. God forsook God. God was wounded
by God. God was slain by God. We sing it. Well might the sun
in darkness hide and shut his glories in when God the mighty
maker died for man the creature's sin. Isaac Watts understood it. He believed it. He didn't understand
it but he believed it. Now, knowing God the Father stood
all his eternal glory on Christ the rock and knowing that God
was in Christ the rock. Know this, God will take nothing
less from you and me, but that we stand all our hope of eternal
life on Christ the Rock. God first trusted Christ and
everybody He saved. You know what we're going to
have in common with God? We're going to trust Christ the Rock.
In all our lives we're going to be looking to Christ the Rock.
Now secondly, Christ is the Rock smitten. He's the rock smitten. Look at verse 6. The Lord said, Take thy rod wherewith
thou smotest the river, take it in thy hand and go, and thou
shalt smite the rock. Now here, Moses and his rod represents
the law and justice of God. Moses was the one God used to
give the Ten Commandments. And right here, in a lot of places,
As he leaves them, Moses is a picture of the law of God and the rod
of God's justice. The justice of God. Now, all
these that God determined to save, remember we're going to,
He said, I said to you that He rested it all on Christ. He's
going to magnify His glory before these people that He's going
to save. He's going to manifest His glory to us. He's going to
show us who He is. He's going to teach us who He
is. He's going to do it by saving us. This is the whole purpose
the world was created. It's the purpose for which Christ
His Son was sent into the world. To magnify the righteousness
of God. To manifest the holiness of God
so we can understand a little bit about who God is. This is why He did it. It's all
about righteousness. Everything's about righteousness.
We sinned. All these people that God is
going to save, we sinned. That wasn't by surprise to God.
This was all according to His purpose. He put Adam in the garden,
one man, perfect garden, no sin, perfect environment. So Adam
can't blame his environment, like so many people do in our
day. He can't blame how he was raised.
He was created perfectly, perfect, upright. And that one man in
that perfect environment broke one commandment. That's all he
had. One commandment. And he broke it. He sinned against
God. And when he did, everybody that's
going to be born of Adam sinned in him. We were in Adam. We were
in his loins. Just like Levi was in Abraham's
loins when Abraham paid tithes. We were in Adam's loins and we
sinned. We did it. You and I did it. We sinned. And this includes
all God's elect who He would save. Now here's the reason that
God did that. Why He purposed that and brought
that to pass using the devil. Here's why it came to pass. Because
God will by no means clear the guilty. Everybody, the scripture
says, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Because God's holy,
God's just. He will by no means clear the
guilty. And the wages of sin, that which
we earn by our sin, is death. Not just physical death, eternal
death. Under the justice of God. And so here God purposed and
brings to pass that these people He's going to save now have fallen
into sin. God won't clear them. They're
going to have to be executed. They're going to be executed.
This is how God's going to manifest His glory. This is how He's going
to manifest His holiness. This is how He's going to manifest
His wisdom to this people. He sends forth His Son. And His
Son is going to take their place. His Son is going to take their
place. Now brethren, what I'm telling you, this world today
scoffs at it. I'm amazed at how few people
in the place where I live, the town where I live, and the people
I come in contact with every day, I'm amazed at how few people
even know what the Bible says. It's amazing. I grew up in the
Bible Belt. I grew up in a place where everybody
you talk to knows something about the Bible. Most people here don't
know a thing about it. They don't know a thing about
it. And they don't want to know and they don't want their children
to know. They don't want. They don't have to even deal
with that. Let's put that off. We don't have to deal with that
right now. We'll deal with that later. And you will deal with
that later. Everybody who meets God without
Christ, without believing on Christ, everybody that meets
God in that condition, They're going to bear the just wrath
of God for all eternity. They're going to be under the
rod of God's justice for all eternity in hell. But for a great multitude that
God chose, He sent forth His Son and Christ bore that living
death so that His people will never have to bear it. Ever. Christ Jesus was born to die.
That was the purpose. He knew it. He knew it. God the
Father knew it. God the Holy Spirit knew it.
This is the reason He came forth into this world was to die. That's
why He was born. If He had lived and He had walked
around on this earth and continued living and not gone to the cross,
He could not have saved anybody. We wouldn't have had any water,
any of this living water. He had to die, that's why He
came, that's how He saved. He said, for this hour came I
unto this hour. That was the purpose God sent
Him for. God is just, that means He's going to execute every sinner. Every single sinner in this world
shall be executed under the justice of God, including those He saves. But here's the good news, those
He saved were executed in Christ Jesus, our substitute. God poured
out justice on Him in place of His people, so His people will
never, ever, ever bear that rod of justice. We've already been
smitten, just like we were in Adam, and we were in his loins,
and we did what Adam did, we really sinned in Adam. Romans
5.12 is so clear on that. And Romans 5.13 backs it up.
That's why God imputed sin from those that lived from Adam to
Moses who did not have a law. They didn't have a law. They
couldn't sin after the similitude of Adam. They didn't have a law
to break. And God will not impute sin when there is no law. How
come He imputed sin to them in death reign? Because they sinned
in Adam. We sinned in Adam. And brethren,
just like we were in Adam, we were in the Lord Jesus Christ
in His loins and we did what He did. We've already borne the
judgment of God and our old man of sin has been executed by the
justice of God. It's already happened for everybody
that was in Christ. What the law could not do in
that it was weak through the flesh. Nothing was wrong with
the law. It's holy, just, and good. But
you and I were the weakness. We were sinners. We could not
justify ourselves. We could not fulfill all righteousness.
We couldn't honor God's holy law. And that's the point. It's
got to be honored. For what the law could not do
in that it was weak through the flesh. You can't be saved by
your works trying to obey the law. You can't even be made holy
by your works trying to obey the law. You can't do one thing
by your works trying to obey the law but discover that you're
guilty. That's all. What the law could
not do and that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own
Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh. He condemned it. He put a death
to sin when Christ died on Calvary's cross. Christ died unto sin once. He let death have dominion over
Him because He's just. And He was bearing the sin of
His people, so He died under sin once, He died under judgment,
He let death have dominion over Him, and doing so He condemned
sin in the flesh. And He did it that the righteousness
of God might be fulfilled in us who are born of God, who walk
not after the flesh but after the Spirit. That doesn't mean
that you and I are given the ability now so that we can fulfill
the law and righteousness ourselves. If that was the case, there would
be no point for Christ to come. But when Christ did that work
and justified us from our sins, He fulfilled all righteousness
for His people. He established the law for His
people. That's the definition of being justified. We've established
the law in perfect righteousness. That means God will never ever
pass present or future ever look upon us and the law say there's
a fault and condemn us for it. Never ever. We've established
it. To be justified means that in
God's record book there is no crime. There's no record. We don't have any criminal record
at all. of any sin ever being committed
against God. If a man goes to prison and he
pays the debt, whatever it is, he gets 50 years or 60 years
and he serves that 50 or 60 years, when he gets out, he's paid his
debt. But for all his life, that crime
is going to be on the record. It's still there. Man can't put
away another man's crimes. If another man took his place,
he could pay his debt. He could serve that 50 or 60
years. We can't take the crime off the book. Christ did. He didn't bear our penalty. He bore our crime. That's what
sins and transgressions are. The crime itself. That's why
it was so important, brethren, and that's why That's why it
had to be done because he's blotting out our transgression. It's just
as if we've never sinned. In God's record book, we have
never sinned. Ever. That's justification. That's
righteousness. You know, when we were at Niagara
Falls, there was these massive rocks at the base of those falls.
I mean, the big, big rocks. And those falls are coming down.
You that have been there, you know what I'm talking about.
But there's so much force from that waterfall that's coming
down. You can just feel it, you know, the force of it. And those
rocks were just, that water wasn't moving those rocks. Those rocks
were just sitting there just strong under all that force of
all that water. But you know why those rocks
were there? At some point they moved. All that water over time
at some point made those rocks to break loose and they fell
down there at the bottom of those falls and that's why they were
there. Christ Jesus is the rock that
never moves. He can't be moved. He cannot
be moved. He's solid, immovable, and durable
because He's the Lord our righteousness. God would have to cease to be
God for Him to be moved. God would have to cease to be
holy and just for this rock to move. And you think about this. I thought about this a while.
If Christ were somehow moved, Do you realize that all the laws
that uphold the universe and all the laws that uphold society,
they would all fall, everything would fall into lawless chaos? Because He upholds all things.
He's the foundation. That's what God's teaching us.
He's the foundation. When we read before the foundation
of the world, It's before Christ who is the
foundation of the world came forth and created the world and
then came forth into it. He's the foundation on which
everything is founded. He upholds all things by the
word of His power. He is the law of gravity. He is the law, all the laws of
physics. He is the law that holds everything
in place. He's the law, the reason we have
laws in society. We wouldn't know anything about
laws in society if it wasn't for God giving us the law. And if He could be moved, everything
would fall into chaos. But He upholds it all. He said,
I lay in Zion a foundation for a foundation, a stone, a tried
stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. And he that
believes on him shall not make haste. He will not be ashamed
for trusting Christ the Rock. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, I'm
God. I change not. Therefore you sons
of Jacob are not consumed. I got a book last week from this
fellow that he's telling us that the problem is this. We need
to make the Word of God contemporary for our generation. They've been
saying that in every generation since I was a kid. I remember
hearing that. I don't want a God whose word changes and changes
with the fashion and changes with the... I don't want a God
that changes as fast as the computers change. I don't like that computers
change that fast. I want them to stay the same.
I like things that stay the same. And God doesn't change. That
means you can trust Him. He's the same yesterday, today
and forever. He established justice and it
never changes for His people. Never changes. Now thirdly, this
rock was smitten to fulfill God's purpose. This rock was smitten
to fulfill God's purpose. Look at verse 6, Exodus 17, 6. He says, Thou shalt smite the
rock, and there shall come water out of it that the people may
drink. This is before anything was done.
Before anything was done, God said, Thou shalt smite the rock,
and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. God purposed who He was smiting
the rock for. It was for the children of Israel.
And God purposed why He was smiting the rock, that the people might
drink. God purposed for eternity, and
Christ knew who He was smitting for. God purposed it and Christ
knew it. He came forth to die for those
Scripture calls God's elect. Those that Scripture calls His
sheep. Those that Christ called My people.
Those that Ephesians once said, God blessed with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places according as He chose us in Christ
Jesus. That's who Christ came into the
world for. He did it on purpose. Now here's where people get angry
when we say God saves on purpose. But man plans what he intends
to do. Why can't God? Before man does something, he
plans out what he's intending to do. If you're building a shed
or whatever, you make all your plans beforehand. Why can't God
do that? Would you send your son to die
for somebody you didn't know who he was paying the debt for?
Why in the world does man impute to God something that's so ignorant
that ignorant man won't even do it? But you let us describe the people
for whom Christ died, and then they'll start denying that that's
who they are. The very same people that get
all upset about election, when you say, well, let me describe
the elect to you. Here's the description of the
elect. They're ungodly. They're without
strength, without hope, without God in the world. Their hearts
were enmity against God. Of all God's elect, He said,
there's none good, no not one. There's none that seeks God.
They're all unprofitable. Christ said, I didn't come to
call the righteous, I came to call sinners to repentance. But
knowing for whom He died, Christ came forth and He accomplished
their redemption. He accomplished it. He accomplished
it. He knew who He was laying down
His life for. His name is Jesus, for He shall
save His people from their sins. And He did it on Calvary's cross
when He said it's finished. You look at the blood and the
water flowing from His wounded side, you see blood that justified
His people and water that sanctified His people. About 40 years after
this, the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and Moses
finally... Moses was a man, you know that?
It took him 40 years to finally get angry enough and come to
the end of his rope with these folks. And he did, and he got
angry, but he made a bad mistake. He smoked the rock twice, and
God killed him for it. You cannot, Christ cannot be
smitten twice. By one offering He has perfected
forever them that are sanctified. He has perfected holy justice
for His people. And that can't be done but once.
You cannot pour out judgment on Him a second time. It wouldn't
be just and God won't do it. And neither can anybody for whom
He died. They can't be smitten a second
time. The rock was smitten specifically for the people of Israel that
the people may drink. That's why. God didn't give water
for the Amalekites or the Amorites or the Boabites. He gave water
for Israel. That's who He gave it for. And
the rock was smitten for them. He said, for the transgression
of my people was He stricken, and with His stripes were healed.
And so Christ gives each one for whom He died repentance and
faith to drink and live forever. He comes to every one of them
and gives them this life to live. He said to that woman at the
well, He said, If you knew the gift of God and you knew who
it was that was talking to you, you would ask Me. And He said,
I'd give you living water. I give you living water." And
she said, you don't have anything to draw with and that well is
deep, how are you going to give me water? He said, you drink
this water, you're going to thirst again. The water I'm talking
about, if you drink this water, you'll never thirst again. You'll
never thirst again. This water will be a well of
water springing up into everlasting life. And you know what he's
talking about? This water that comes from that rock is a picture
of the Holy Spirit. The life. The Lord said on that
day, that last day of the feast, He stood and He said, If any
man thirsts, let him come unto Me and drink. He that believeth
on Me, as the Scripture says, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water. And Scripture says, This spake
He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive,
for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus was not
yet glorified. You see the water poured out
of the rock and that Holy Spirit's poured out upon chosen sinners
as the Spirit of life from the crucified, risen, and exalted
Christ. How come it says it's the Holy Ghost given to them
that believe? Because what took place on the
day of Pentecost and what took place when God sent Peter to
the Gentiles was a one-time thing. The Holy Ghost was given as a
spirit of life for His people. His church came under the Spirit,
the Holy Spirit. That's what He went to do. Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse
for us, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith. And what God did on the day of Pentecost, And he did for the whole church.
For the whole church. And some of them there that already
believed. The Spirit had never been given yet. And it was given. It was given. It was promised
by God. This was a covenant that God
promised. He said in Psalm 105.41, He opened
the rock and the waters gushed out and they ran in the dry places
like a river for He remembered His holy promise and Abraham
His servant. This is God's promise to give
the Holy Spirit. Until Christ gave the Holy Spirit
on the day of Pentecost, it had not been given yet. Now that's
not saying that Old Testament believers that lived in that
day, they were born of the Spirit of God. But I'm saying, On the
scale that Christ did it that day, it had not been done where
the Spirit was given. And that was testifying this
is a new day. This is the gospel age in which
we're living. And then He did it a little while
later to the Gentiles to show that He has an elect among the
Gentiles as well. And this Spirit is the Spirit
that comes into each one of His people and gives us life from
death and makes us alive. Because this was His purpose
that the people might drink, that we might have life. Now
lastly, who beheld the rock smitten? Who beheld the rock smitten?
Look back up at verse 5. The Lord said to Moses, Go on
before the people and take with thee of the elders of Israel.
God didn't allow the children of Israel to see the rock being
smitten. He didn't allow them to see it. Those who don't believe
God and don't believe His Word will never see Christ. Christ
is seen only with the eye of faith. Without the eyes of faith,
you can't see Christ the smitten rock. Without eyes of faith,
you can't see that Christ is that one who came from Mary.
You can't see Him. Without the eyes of faith, you
can't see. You look at this rock and say,
well, that's only a rock. How could a rock follow them
around? With faith, you look at it and say, that rock was
Christ. If you don't have faith, you can't see him. But God uses
the preaching of this gospel to bear witness of Christ. And
so God provided some witnesses. He took the 12 elders which were
of the 12 tribes of Israel so that they could see this rock
being smitten. These were dependable men, trustworthy
men who would tell the truth of what they had heard and saw.
And that's what a witness does. Everything God does is done in
truth, is done in light, is pure. He's not trying to hide something
and do it secretly or do something that's underhanded, is what I
mean. He does everything on the up
and up. And He took witnesses so that they would see that this
really happened. He really smote a rock and water
really came out of it. and they could bear witness to
it. You know what Christ did when He came into this earth?
He chose twelve witnesses. Twelve witnesses. Twelve apostles.
So that they could begin bearing witness of Christ. You know what
John said? Remember in 1 John he said, That
which we've seen and heard declare we unto you that you might have
fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with
God the Father and with His Son Christ Jesus. That's what a witness
does. He tells you what he's seen and
heard. And brethren, I'm here to tell you now, you go home
and you read Hebrews 11, and you'll find out there's a whole
bunch of witnesses saying that everything I'm telling you is
true of Christ. I'm telling you there's a whole bunch more witnesses
in this book right here if you just read it. And there's a whole
bunch of witnesses in this room right now. And this is what we're saying
to you. Oh, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. Come,
buy without money. Come without money. Come without
anything of you. Now let me ask you this, sinner,
do you believe God? Why doesn't a sinner believe
God? I know there's lots of reasons,
but I'm just saying, think about that. If you don't believe your
Creator, You don't believe the One who's giving you that breath
you just took. You don't believe the One who
gives you the ability to blink your eye like you just did. You
don't believe Him. The God before whom we'll stand. I believe Him. He was wounded
for my transgressions. He was bruised for my iniquities.
The chastisement of my peace was upon him. And with his stripes
I'm healed. I am healed. Every believer here
bears witness. That's so. Every believer here
bears witness. This is what Christ did. He accomplished
it. He accomplished it. Believe on
Christ and eternal life is yours. Drink of this water. You have
life. Life eternal. Christ said he
that believes on me hath eternal life. I pray God give you grace
to believe on him today. All right, Brother Art.