You can be standing on the rock
while you're seated, can't you? Exodus 17. Exodus chapter 17. Someone wrote me an email a couple
of days ago, and I began to think about Exodus 17, the latter part of
it. I began to read about Jehovah
Nissi, Lord our banner. And so I started reading the
whole chapter, and in it was the smitten rock. Well, I thought,
well, I'll preach both. And I couldn't get past the first
seven verses, the smitten rock. So we're going to look at that
tonight. And Lord willing, Sunday we'll look at Jehovah Nissi,
the Lord our banner. Aaron and Hur held up the hands
of Moses, who held the rod in his hand. As long as they held
up his hand, Joshua defeated the foes. That's a wonderful picture there,
wonderful type. So we'll look at that, Lord willing,
Sunday. My pastor told us young preachers
this. He said, would we be faithful
ministers of the gospel of Christ Would we be faithful teachers
and preachers to our generation? Would we be faithful students
and rightly divide the word of truth? Well then, we shall search
the Old Testament scriptures and preach Christ from the types,
the patterns, and the prophecies, as did our Lord and his disciples. And that's what I want to do
tonight, and I want to be a wise and faithful preacher. I love
the story of our Lord preaching to those two disciples on the
road to Emmaus, don't you? That's in Luke 24, if we ever
get to it again. But that's where he preached
to them from the books of Moses, five books, all the prophets
and the Psalms, the things concerning himself. Just try to imagine
him preaching some of those messages. And you know he preached the
Passover. You know he preached the smitten
rod. He had to. He had to. And the
serpent on the pole. You know he did. I love that
story. And water from the rock. That rock followed him. That
rock was Christ. I simply want to read this and
make a few comments and hope the Lord will bless it to our
heart. Verse 1, 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 they pitched in Rephidim
and there was no water for the people to drink. All the congregation,
the children of Israel journeyed This is another of many, many
stories of the Lord's dealings with His chosen people. Israel,
they were called. Now, you and I know that He is
not a Jew, which is one outwardly. All these people were not God's
people, but they represent God's people. They were His chosen
people, at least outwardly, elect. And they all journeyed through
this place called the wilderness of sin. Why did the Lord call
it that? Because that's the wilderness
we live in. The Lord said of Jacob, He found
him in a waste, howling wilderness. I believe it was Jacob who was
howling, groaning. We all groan, don't we, in this
wilderness of sin. We live in it. In 1 Corinthians
10, as you read with me, it said, they all passed through the Red
Sea. This is a type of this world
that we go through. They all went through the same
thing. They all did. They all went through
this very same thing to more or lesser degree, but they all
went through the same things, the same temptation. You read
with me in 1 Corinthians 10, and no temptation has taken you
but such as is common. And they all went through it. And second, Peter wrote this,
he said, know this brethren, he said, the same afflictions,
the very same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren
throughout the world. Accomplished? Well, they're sent
by our Lord to accomplish something. The increase of our faith, His
glory. our dependence on Him, see our
need of Him, and to show us something of our sinfulness, to chasten
us, and so forth. These same afflictions accomplish
something according to God's purpose in all of your brethren
throughout the world. So all of God's people go through
these same afflictions. But let me remind you what we
just read with many of them, many. God was not pleased. Not well pleased. And without
faith, it's impossible to please God. It's impossible. And many fell in the wilderness.
Now what is it that overcomes the wilderness? How are we going
to keep from falling in this wilderness and unbelief? Faith. This is the victory that overcomes
the world. Just trust in the Lord. Just trust in our God,
which we're so weak at. I look at verse 1, it says, after
their journeys according to the commandment of the Lord, they
all were journeying according to the commandment of the Lord. Their path was chosen by the
Lord. All of them, the path they trod
The journey they took was chosen by the Lord. Now, the Lord did
not send them on the easy route. If you look at your map in the
back of the Bible, you'll see that the most direct route was
through the Philistine, the land of the Philistine, right beside
the sea there. And it would have only taken
them a little while to get to the promised land. But that's
not where... And God said this, I'm not going
to send them through their enemies right away, they'll want to go
back. Well, they wanted to go back
anyway. But anyway, the Lord sent them seemingly a roundabout
way, didn't He? You've seen it in your map in
the back. Way down through Arabia, the
Sinai Peninsula, the desert, the desert, waste howling wilderness,
the wilderness of sin. And it took, and they wandered,
Forty years! It would have maybe taken them
four months to get there, the short route. But no, God had
them go travel, journey, forty years. Why is that? Because that's
about the lifespan of a believer. I mean, that is the life of faith
of a believer. If the Lord saves you, you'll
be 20, 30 years old, maybe 40 years old. You might live another
40 years. That's the life of faith we live.
And we're going to go through this wilderness. And the Lord's
going to bring us through trials, troubles, temptations, and all
that. Listen to Psalm 25. He's talking
about the journey, the path that the Lord has given us to trod. Listen to Psalm 25. All the paths
of the Lord are mercy and truth. Such as keep His covenant in
His Testament. It's all mercy and truth. There's another Psalm
that says the paths of the Lord drop fatness. If we could just
see the journey He has put us on. All the way our Savior has
led us has been mercy and truth. Every step we've taken, every
trial we've gone through, everything we've gone through, if we could
just see with the eye of faith. Someday we're going to know as
we've been known. But if we could just look back and see the hand
of our Lord in bringing us. So their journeys were according
to the commandment of the Lord. He knows the way I take Job's
sin. He knows the way I take. Why?
Because he put me in it. Alright, look at this, verse
1. And they pitched in Rephidim. Pitched what? Their tents. They all lived in tents. All
of them, didn't they? They lived in tents. Talks about
Abraham as the first father of the faithful. Says he and Isaac
and Jacob, they all lived in tents. And so did we. Tent, that you're dwelling in
that body, is a temporary dwelling. It's a frail dwelling, a tent.
Have you ever, most everybody in here has slept in a tent.
You remember that? We slept, Joe and Nancy and I,
Mindy and I, slept in a tent. We had so much fun. But anyway, and I'll tell you
this song Joe was singing. It's hilarious. Anyway, we had
a good time. It's a temporary, frail, frail
dwelling, subject to howling winds, isn't it? Subject to hot
and cold, and it's the winds blowing hard. Ron, John, me,
Wesley, slept in the tent one time and the flood came. Didn't it? The flood came, was
washing our tent away. I was asleep, and they rudely
woke me up. I was doing just fine. They said,
we're going to drown. I said, I don't care. This is the tent we dwell in. Temporary dwelling plot. The
tent. They all dwelt in these tents. And bless our Lord, He tabernacled
among us too, didn't He? He dwelled in this body. He was
crucified in weakness. He lived by faith. He had to
completely and totally depend on His Heavenly Father for His
next meal. He didn't own anything on it.
Though He owned the earth, He didn't own anything as a man
on this earth. Did He ever miss a meal? What a lesson. What an example in faith. Did
he ever worry? Ever. Did he ever murmur or complain? Never. Never. He had nothing,
but he had everything. There is he that hath many riches,
yet is poor. That's what the Proverbs said.
There is he that hath nothing, yet is poor, but yet is rich.
And that's our Lord. Rich in faith, happy, happy,
happy. Well, it says in verse 1, there
was no water for the people to drink. They came to this place
called Rephidim. I'm not sure the meaning of it,
but it represents the world that we live in. Doesn't it? It represents
this world. Let's see if I can find this.
I didn't write it down. I think it's Psalm 60, 63. Let me see
if I can find that. But this world that we live in,
yes, Psalm 63 says it. Oh God, thou art my God. Early will I seek thee. My soul
thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land where no water is. Now that describes this world.
a dry and thirsty land where no water is. That's where we dwell, this world. Our Lord, speaking to that woman
at the well, who came to draw water from that well every day,
day in and day out, she kept coming to that well. It did not
quench her thirst. She'd have to come back. It never
did quench her thirst fully. And our Lord said, this water,
pointing to that well, will leave you thirsty. It will never satisfy
your thirst. But he said to her, the water
that I give you, you'll never thirst again. Oh, she said, sir,
give me this water. Christ is the water. We're going
to see that. Now we dwell in a dry and a thirsty land, don't
we? That's our heart by nature. That's
our soul by nature, dry, dead, nothing there, nothing to satisfy. We cannot be satisfied. Man cannot
be satisfied. He lusts, he longs for, he thirsts
after everything, especially sin. We drink, by nature, iniquity
like the water, and we can't get enough of it. It will not
satisfy our thirst. That's our sinful nature, isn't
it? Thirsty. Have you ever thought about this?
Yes, you have. We've looked at it. But man thirsts. Man thirsts. And these people,
they murmured and complained and said, we're going to die
of thirst. They wouldn't have. But they complained. Well, Christ,
when He was made sin on Calvary's tree, what did He say? When He
became sin, what did He say? Two words. I thirst. He who is the water of life was
made sin, and hanging on the cross, he said, now he's a sin,
our sin substitute. He said, I thirst. And God poured
out the wrath of God on him. Went through the fires of hell.
So we won't ever thirst. He did that so we'll never thirst.
When there's a day in heaven and glory in the new earth, we'll
never have to drink water for our thirst again. We might drink
it just for enjoyment, but we won't need it. We don't need
the sun. We have Him. Christ. Now, verse
2, the people complain they did chide with Moses. They could just come to this
place in the wilderness, and they noticed there were no rivers,
there were no ponds, there were no streams, it was a desert place,
and they noticed, and they weren't thirsty yet. They had been there
long enough. But they just said, we're going
to die of thirst. Now, do you know what was in
chapter 16 before this? Look at that. That's verse 2.
People thirsted. Let's read verse 3. The people
thirsted, therefore water. And the people murmured against
Moses and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us
out of Egypt to kill us and our children, our cattle, with thirst?
Have you brought us out here to kill us with thirst? We're
going to die of thirst. What are we going to drink? Now
that's chapter 17, verse 3. Look at chapter 16, verse 3. Look at it. Chapter 16, verse
3, the children of Israel said unto Moses, Would to God we died
by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by
the flesh pot, when we did eat bread to the full. You brought
us forth in the wilderness to kill us with hunger. Oh, what an ungrateful people
we are. What are we going to eat? What are we going to drink?
That's all they cared about. What an ungrateful people. They
chided with Moses. God said to Moses, He said to
Jeremiah, He said to Samuel, He said to the apostles, He said,
it's not you, it's me. They don't believe. It's me they're
complaining about. They complained, chided, that
means they were complaining to Moses, complaining of God's providence. I'm out. They should have been
calling on the Lord. They should have been thankful
people. These were the same people that
God had brought out of Egypt out of the slime pits. These are the same people in
hard bondage and God brought them out just freely, mercifully,
graciously, chose them, heard their cries and brought them
out. They didn't deserve it. These are the same people that saw
the hand of God in all the plagues of Egypt, smiting and destroying
Egypt, but didn't touch them. These are the same people that
saw the people of Egypt dying left and right. The same people
that came out singing His praises, came out with a high hand of
Scripture, the same people that saw God part the Red Sea and
for them to cross over, and then the Egyptians are saying to do,
they perished by water. But the people of God, the water
was a wall under them. How about you? Mercy after mercy
after mercy after mercy these were the same people that saw
mercy after mercy after mercy after mercy the grace of God
in their life And that's me What they quickly
forgot it did not take them long to forget and they began to murmur
and complain What should God have done? You know, the depth of human
depravity is deeper than we can fathom. It really is. God's people understand something
of human depravity because they've seen it in themselves. The only
thing greater than man's sin is God's grace. Where sin did
abound, how could these people be so ungrateful? How could these
people so quickly forget all that God had done for them? How
could they be so unbelieving, so untrusting? How, after all
that God had done for them, how could they act like that? Guilty. I murmur and complain
on the least of the things. It doesn't take much for us to
absolutely thank God. Ill of God. Doesn't take much. The only thing greater than our
sin is God's grace. Where sin did abound, grace did
much more abound. God should have come down hard
on them. God should have blasted them
through Moses, but he didn't. He just said to Moses, take your
rod. Back in chapter 16, they murmured
and complained about eating it. He said, just wait, I'm going
to rain bread from heaven. God's so good. God is ready to
pardon. He's a merciful, gracious, compassionate,
kind God who's ready to pardon. You know what we're ready to
do? Depart. God's ready to pardon. The only thing greater than our
sin is His grace. Well, the people thirsted. They
thirsted. And look at verse 3. They said,
You brought us out here to kill us and our children. No. No. No. No. A thousand times, no.
He brought them out to keep them from dying. Them and their children. You know why you're here? In
this little tabernacle? This little city of refuge? Here
in this gospel? To keep you from dying. Bring
you out of Egypt. You and your children. You've
got your little children with you. Oh, may God show them that
if they're out there in the world and they're not in Christ the
earth, they're going to die. But if they're in Christ, they're
not going to die. No, He didn't bring us out to kill us. He brought
us out to make us live. And we won't die with thirst.
The world's going to die of thirst. The world's going to die of hunger.
Isn't that what Isaiah said? They look to the world and be
hungry and be dark. And he said, but God's people
are going to eat fat things, wine on the leaves. He prepares
us a table to be started. There's a famine. Amos, Hosea,
Amos talked about the famine in the land. Not of bread, but
of hearing the word. We don't have that famine dinner. Can you imagine being in a religion
right now, hearing what they hear? Husks, empty, useless religion. We eat fat things, drink water
out of the rock, honey out of the rock, bread from heaven,
which is what? Crap. Oh, how blessed we are. Why would we ever murmur and
complain? Good question. Moses cried unto the Lord. What
did Moses do, verse 4? Moses cried unto the Lord, saying,
what shall I do unto this people? They'd be almost ready to stone
me. Moses here represents our Lord, doesn't he? They did take
up stones to stone our Lord. The bread from heaven, the water
of life, the Savior, the Redeemer, the One who's bringing us out,
they took up stones to stone Him. Isn't that something? He said,
for what good work do you stone me? He just went about doing
good. That's all he did. Went about
doing good. They said, not for a good work. We'll have you feed
us. We'll have you clothe us. We'll have you give us, give
us, give us, give us. But we're not going to bow to
you. You see how blessed we are to
be made willing to bow and want this man to reign over us? To
realize that we deserve We don't deserve the least of His mercy
and all the truth that He's shown by Jacob. What shall I do? They'll be ready to stone me.
Verse 5, the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people. You
go out before the people. Now as I said, Moses is a type
of Christ here. The rod's a type of Christ. The
rock sure is. But Moses, a type of... Christ
was always going before his people. I love that. He went before them. He faced Satan, our adversary,
before them, for them, for us, and he defeated him. He faced
every temptation that we face in this world, and he defeated
him as our second Adam. Perfect hope, made perfect through
the things he suffered. tempted at all points, like as
we are, without sin. Oh, He's the perfect substitute.
He's the perfect covenant head. That's what He did. He faced
that. He faced everything we face. All the enemies, all the
trials, all the temptations, everything. He faced death. And
the scripture says He's the firstborn from the dead. He went to the
grave before all of His disciples, and He came back out and said,
It's not death to you. Christ died. His soul was made
an offering for sin. The soul that sins must surely
die. And I can't explain it. But Christ died. He did. And
we won't ever die. Because Christ went before us.
And He went before us, John, when He rose from the grave and
ascended back to the right hand of God. He went before us into
the veil. The right hand of the majesty on high sat down right
there. And there He lives ever for us. The way into the Holy
of Holies. He went before them. All right,
look at verse 5. It says, Go on before the people
and take with thee the elders of Israel. Christ chose some
men, didn't He? Men. They were all men. No women.
They were men. And He chose prophets, some prophets,
some apostles, some evangelists, some pastors, some teachers to
be with Him. To be with Him. To see His glory
and to preach that glory. and to show forth that glory.
So he did. And in verse 5, the Lord said
to Moses, and take thy rod wherewith thou smotest the river. Take
in thy hand and go. Take this rod wherewith you smote
the river. This was the rod that Moses,
this was his shepherd's staff. What it was? Moses was a shepherd. You know what Moses did before
the Lord called him to a public service to lead his people? You
know what he was? A shepherd. Just like our Lord. David was keeping the sheep before
he kept Israel. And so was our Lord Jesus Christ.
He's always keeping it. And this rod is like the shepherd's
staff. He leads, he guides, he protects,
he defends. And this rod was... Moses became
their king. He became their king. He's a
Levite. I never thought about this. He's
a priest. He's a prophet. And he's king. Yes, he is. He's their king, though not crowned
as such, but he is their king. And this shepherd's staff was
his rod, his scepter, by which he did things, by which he ruled. He divined things with it. He
defended his people. He parted the Red Sea. He led
his people. He directed them. And that's our Lord's sovereignty.
A scepter of righteousness is a scepter of our Lord's kingdom,
isn't it? He reigns, He rules. Yes, the
Lord is our shepherd. And the rod which He rules with
is His sovereignty, His sovereign prophet, His Word. He upholds
all things by His Word. He gives all commands by His
Word. He rules, He reigns, He defends, He leads us. He is the
rod. He's called the rod, isn't it?
The rod of Jesse, the root of Jesse, that's what he's called.
And his word, his reign, his rule, it comforts me, doesn't
it, you? My old brother Chapman's got some
good articles in his bulletin, I'm going to use them soon. So
good on the Lord reigning and ruling, what do we have to worry
about? The Lord chose Moses to lead these people, he's going
to lead them all the way to the promised land. And our Lord,
Moses couldn't take them in, could he? Why? Because then he
represents the law. The law can't take us in. But
Joshua did. Let's just cry. All right. He said, Take your rod wherewith
thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Now here's
the gospel. Verse 6. Behold, I will stand
before thee there upon the rock in Horeb. What rock? God said, that rock there, you
see that rock? Hadn't noticed it before. There
it is. Well, how long has that rock
been there? It was there before they got
there, wasn't it? God said, look Moses, see that rock? I'm going to stand on that rock.
Right there, on that rock. You know, people, geologists
and all these idiots say that the world is, the rocks and hills
of this world are billions of years old. They're not. But that
rock is. That rock has no beginning and
no end. That rock is Christ. He's always
been the rock, hadn't he? And God said, I'm going to stand
on that rock. That's what God said first. I'm
going to stand on that rock. Didn't he? I will stand before
thee there upon the rock and hold. God put everything on Christ,
the foundation, the foundation stone, the chief corner stone.
God, everything, every purpose, the will, the mind, the kingdom
of God rests upon Christ, the solid rock. It's on solid ground. It'll never be moved, never change. Christ the solid rock. God says,
I'm standing on the rock. The rock. The rock of Christ
Jesus. The foundation stone upon which God places everything.
Now here's the command. Here's God's command. Take that
rod in your hand and I will stand there upon the rock in Horeb.
Now that's Sinai is where that is. And thou shalt smite the
rock. Smite it. And there shall come
water out of it, that the people may drink." The Lord didn't rebuke
the people. He didn't rail on the people. He just said to Moses, you take
that rod, and you smite that rock, and water is going to come
out. And it's going to bless the people. They're going to drink it. Isn't
it good? He's murmuring. And Moses did
it. Moses took that rock and he hit
it. And you know what happened? Scripture says, fountain of living
water. Water came out of that rock.
How much water? Well, there were two million
people. Can all those people drink out
of one rock? Yes, they can. Well, how much? How thirsty are you? That rock
is Christ. Turn with me to Isaiah 53. You
know these verses. But Isaiah 53 will mean more
to you now after he told Moses to smite that rock. That's Christ
and Him crucified, isn't it? Look at Isaiah 53. Speaking of
our Lord, who hath believed our report? To whom is the arm of
the Lord revealed? I do, I believe. He's revealed
to me, hasn't he you? Irene, me, you, me, all of us. It says, He shall grow up, our
Lord shall grow up before God as a tender plant. What's that? Corn or wheat. He's the bread.
As a root out of a dry ground. Oh, He lives in this dry and
thirsty land. He lived here. He's the bread. He's the water. He hath no form
nor company. You know that rock? The people
might have seen that rock. It's a rock. Like any other rock. No, wait. You just wait. When
Moses smites it, you'll see. Like a tent in the wilderness.
You know the tent, the tabernacle in the wilderness, it was surrounded
by other tent. The tabernacle in the middle was a badger skin,
brown tent. It looked just like a tent. It
looked like the rest of the tent. Oh no, wait a minute. You go
on the inside. This tent's different. That rock's
different. And you're going to see the difference
when you smite it. It's all going to become clear
when you smite the rock. We really don't know anything
about God. We don't know anything about
sin. We don't know anything about Christ. We don't know anything
about salvation. We don't know anything about man. We don't
know anything about anything till we see Christ crucified. Then we know why He came. We
know who He is. We know who God is. We know what
man is. We know what sin is, something.
We know what salvation is through Christ crucified, don't we? No
other way. No other way. Not his humanitarian
efforts? I said that wrong, didn't I?
Not his good works? But being crucified, we see.
Crucified. Look at this in verse 2. It says, You'll grow up no comeliness
which shall see him, no beauty that we should desire him. No,
no. Like that woman at the well. She wasn't thirsty until Christ
made her thirsty. She didn't need Christ until
Christ made her need Him. He's despised and rejected of
men. They chode with Moses. Well,
Paul said they're tempting Christ. Isn't that what he said? They
tempted Christ. And despised and rejected of
men. A man of sorrows acquainted with grief. We hid, as it were,
our faces from Him. And don't even want to look at
Him. Oh, my. Boy, we want to look to Him now,
don't we? We want to look at Him. We want to look like Him.
He's despised, we esteem him not, but surely, here it is,
surely, surely he hath borne our grief and carried our sorrow.
We did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. I now know that it was God who
smote Christ on Calvary's tree. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. that he was smitten of God, he was afflicted, and he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquity,
the chastisement, the whipping that I deserve for my peace with
God was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed." Before
Moses smoked that rock, God said, you smite it and water will come
out and the people will drink it. They will be satisfied. He shall see the travail of his
soul and be satisfied. So Moses did, he smoked that
rock and water came out of that rock. He did so in the sight
of the elders of Israel. And you know what? That rock followed them all the days of their lives.
Like the manna, they ate that manna for 40 years. It just kept
raining manna. On those worthless, good-for-nothing,
murmuring, complaining... And as I said in the last chapter,
God just said, I'm gonna give them manna, I'm gonna give them
manna. When he got angry with them though, when he said, I've
had enough of you. It's when they said, we hate this light
bread. That's when God said, I hate
you. Because Christ is the bread from
heaven. He didn't have to come down. God didn't have to send
Christ down here, but he did. He spared not his own son, but
delivered him up for us all. Sent Christ down here. How could
we? He didn't deserve for him to come. How could we ever tire? And that's when God will tire
of us if we tire of hearing Christ. If we ever lose our hunger and
thirst for Christ, the bread and the water, that's when God
will cast us out. We won't go into the promised
land. So, oh, blessed are they that hunger and thirst. And He
did this in the sight of the elders, and brethren, He's done
this in our sight, and we've seen His glory. And he called
the name of that place, look at verse 7, Massa and Meribah,
because of the chaity of the children of Israel, because they
tempted the Lord. They said, is the Lord among
us or not? Is the Lord among us or not?
I was going to have you turn to Exodus 33, where the Lord
said, where the people said, Moses said, how is it that we
may know we've found grace in your sight? How is it that we
know that you're with us? And you know what he said? He
said, there's a place by me, and you're going to stand on
a rock. We said, how is it that we know
you're with us? He said, well, there's a rock.
And you're going to stand on it. And I'm going to come down,
make my goodness pass before you, make my name known. And
better yet, I'm going to put you in the cleft of the rock.
What's that? Same rock, same story, Christ
crucified. Is God with us or not? Like Manoah's
wife. No, He's not going to kill us.
He wouldn't have shown us He's there. Well, there's another story over
in Numbers chapter 20. And they don't have time to go
there. But when the people again, again
they murmured, again they said, we're thirsty, what are we going
to drink? We don't have anything to drink. That rock was still
there. But they thirsted for other things.
And you know what God said to Moses to do? He said, that rock? Speak to it. Just speak. Don't smite it again. Christ
crucified once, wasn't he? One sacrifice for sin forever.
Don't smite that rock again. Just speak. All you got to do.
If you're hungry, I mean if you're thirsty, all you got to do, speak! Give me a drink. I'm thirsty.
Rivers of living water. Moses. He got mad, didn't he? Maybe
rightfully so with the people. He took it personally. God said, it's not you, Moses.
It's not you, it's me. And Moses smoked that rock of
candid. And God said, okay, Moses. Okay, you're not going in. Oh,
that's serious. So we just speak. Christ is crucified. He's the water of life. Ever
liveth our thirst to assuage. And all we have to do is speak. Ask Him. Rivers of water. Stand with me. Father in heaven, thank You so
much for Your Word. Thank You so much for showing
us the report, giving us the testimony. We have seen, we believe
your report. We've seen the arm of the law.
He revealed Him, Christ to us, smitten rock, manna from heaven,
brazen serpent, serpent on a pole, everything, the rod of God, root
of Jesse, kinsman redeemer, on and on it
goes, woman's seed. Oh Lord, you've shown us so much.
How many stories. have you shown us, revealed to
us, that you're not going to kill us. You didn't bring us
out of this world to kill us, but to give us life by showing
us Christ our life. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank
you for Christ and him crucified. In his name we pray and give
thanks. Amen. You're dismissed.