That Rock Was Christ

Q: What does the Bible say about faith in God during difficult times?

The Bible emphasizes that we should trust in God for our needs, as seen in Matthew 6:25-34. The Bible teaches that faith in God is crucial, particularly during difficult circumstances. In Matthew 6:25-34, Jesus tells us not to be anxious about our needs like food and clothing, because our heavenly Father knows what we need. This passage encourages believers to seek first the kingdom of God, assuring them that all necessary provisions will follow. The challenge lies in our sinful hearts, which easily doubt God's provision even after witnessing His faithfulness, just as Israel doubted God in the wilderness despite His miracles.

Q: How do we know that Jesus is the Rock mentioned in the Bible?

1 Corinthians 10:4 explicitly identifies Christ as the spiritual Rock that followed the Israelites in the wilderness. 1 Corinthians 10:4 states that the rock that provided water for the Israelites was Christ. This identification is significant as it illustrates that Christ is the source of spiritual sustenance and life for believers. The events in the Exodus, where God instructed Moses to smite the rock, serve as a type pointing to Christ’s atoning work. Just as the rock provided water, Christ provides living water to all who believe, symbolizing the spiritual nourishment necessary for eternal life.

Q: Why is it significant that Christ was smitten only once?

Christ's once-for-all sacrifice highlights the completeness of His atonement for sin. The significance of Christ being smitten only once is rooted in the doctrine of atonement. In Numbers 20, God instructed Moses to speak to the rock instead of smiting it again, symbolizing that Christ's sacrifice does not need repetition. Hebrews 10:12 tells us that Christ, after offering one sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God, indicating that His work is complete. This teaches believers that there is no further need for sacrifices; Christ's singular act suffices for the salvation of all who believe, underpinning the assurance we have in His redemptive work.

Q: What does the story of Israel in the wilderness teach us about human nature?

The story illustrates the tendency of the human heart to doubt God's provision despite His faithfulness. The account of Israel in the wilderness underscores the evil inclination of the human heart. Despite witnessing God's miraculous deliverance from Egypt, they grumbled and doubted His provision when faced with hunger and thirst. Jeremiah 17:9 describes the heart as deceitful and desperately wicked, reflecting the same struggle that Paul describes in Romans 7 about the conflict between the desire to obey God and the pull of sin. This narrative serves as a reminder of our own tendencies to doubt God during trials, despite His past faithfulness and provision.

Q: Why do Christians believe that salvation is solely through Jesus Christ?

Salvation is only through Christ because He alone fulfills God's requirement for atonement. Christ is the exclusive means of salvation because He is the only one who can satisfy God's demands for justice through His atoning sacrifice. John 14:6 reveals Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life, emphasizing that no one can come to the Father except through Him. His death on the cross—where He was smitten for our sins—was the fulfillment of God's redemptive plan. Believers hold that through His blood, our sins are atoned for, allowing us to be reconciled with God. This foundational truth is central to the gospel and undergirds the Reformed understanding of salvation by grace alone through faith alone.

from the wilderness of sin, after
their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord,
and pitch and rep for them. And there was no water for the
people to drink." There was no water for the people
to drink. Wherefore the people did strive,
is the word there. They did strive with Moses and
said, give us water that we may drink. Moses said unto them,
Why chide ye, or strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the
Lord? Murmur against God. The people
thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses,
and they said, Wherefore is this, that thou hast brought us up
out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children, our cattle, with
thirst? Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do? unto these people. They be almost
ready to stone me. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders
of Israel, and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take
it in thine hand, and go. And behold, I will stand before
thee there upon the rock, in and thou shalt smite the rock. I will stand before thee there
upon the rock in Oreb, 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. Now, if we didn't
know something of the evil of the human heart And Jeremiah
tells us about it. Jeremiah said the heart is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked. That's what he says about
the human heart. And God said every imagination
of man's heart is evil continually. And if we didn't experience this
evil in our own heart, this sinfulness in our own hearts like Paul did.
He said over here in Romans chapter 7 verse 24, Paul said this about
his own heart. He said in Romans chapter 7 verse
22, I delight in the law of God after the inward man, but I see
another law in my members warring against the law of my mind. bringing
me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members,
O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this
body of death, that the body of this death is this body of
death?" Now, if we didn't know something of the evil of the
human heart and experience this sinfulness in our own hearts,
we'd be at a loss to understand this. We'd be at a loss to understand
the unbelief of these people, the ingratitude of these people,
and the murmuring of these people after all that God had done for
them, and after all that they had seen. They were in captivity
for 400 years, in bondage. And God miraculously and mightily,
with a mighty hand, led them out of Egypt. They saw the power
of God, the death of the firstborn, the plagues upon Egypt, the dividing
of the Red Sea, the destruction of the soldiers of Egypt. They'd
seen all that. And yet, here they are ready
to stone their leader. They love Moses. They adored
him. And here they are ready to stone him. Now you think about
that. But someone said this, an evil
heart is always ready to doubt the living God. A sinful heart. Now, like I said,
we know something about this evil heart. We know something
about our own sinful hearts. And a sinful heart is always
ready to depart from the living God. My tendency, the tendency
of my heart, and I imagine all of you will identify with this,
the tendency of my heart is not to believe God but to doubt him.
Do you find that true? It's a lot, I don't know, I call
myself a realist or a pessimist, but it's just an evil heart of
unbelief is what it is. The smallest cloud of trouble,
is this not true? The smallest cloud of trouble
is sufficient to hide the face of Almighty God in our day. The smallest cloud of trouble.
It doesn't have to be a big thing. With me, it doesn't have to be
a great thing. It can just be a pain. It can
just be a disappointment. It can just be something that
causes my anger to rise up, and it just seemed like the smallest
cloud, the smallest little cloud is sufficient to hide the face
of God. And here these people were that
they had a shortage of water, and they read the stone Moses.
They were ready to put him to death. We come here together on Sunday.
I rebuke myself for this continually. Because I want God to do something
about it. I want to do something about
it myself. But we come here and we read and we talk and we sing
on the Lord's Day about faith and about trusting Jesus and
about waiting upon the Lord. And then during the week we have
a hard time making it work. During the week, what happens
to all that confidence? All that trust and all that faith?
It arose back here in chapter 16. Turn back to chapter 16 a
minute. It arose again. And here's what
it was over. Here's what it was over. Now,
stay with me right here. This is so important. It wasn't
over a spiritual thing. It was over material things.
This is what it was over. What shall we eat? What shall
we drink? What shall we wear? And these
are the things that the heathen pan after. And we'll read this
in a moment, and we'll make some statements. I don't doubt, and
I've heard you say the same thing, I don't doubt for a moment who
Christ is. He's the Son of God. I don't
doubt for a moment the finished work of Christ. You don't either.
You know salvations of the Lord, and I do too. That's not the
problem. I don't doubt that he's the only Savior of sinners. I
know that as well as I'm standing right here. I believe eternal
life is through the blood of Christ, through the righteousness
of Christ, through the doing and dying of Jesus Christ. You
do too. Not a person in here doubts that. Where our problem is, we believe
he can save our souls. We have a little doubt about
whether he can feed our bodies. You say, what are we going to
eat, what are we going to drink, what are we going to wear? Wherewithal
shall we be clothed? How are we going to get through
this trial, this difficulty? How are we going to get through
this recession? How are we going to get through this, that, and
the other? That's where we murmur, and doubt, and worry. Take no anxious thought, he says,
for tomorrow. God holds tomorrow. Don't ask
these questions, what shall I drink, what shall I eat, what shall
I wear? Your heavenly Father knows you have need of these
things. Seek ye first the kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and these things might be, ought
to be, shall be added to you. That's right. And here they are. in Exodus 16, verse 1. This happened before. And they took their journey from
Elam, and all the congregation of the children of Ishmael came
into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elam and Sinai. On
the 15th day of the second month, after they were departing out
of the land of Egypt, and the whole congregation of the children
of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
and the children of Israel said to them, Would that God would
have died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots,
when we did eat bread to the full. You brought us forth into
this wilderness to kill the whole congregation with hunger. What
are we going to eat? What are we going to drink? What
are we going to drink? It keeps coming up. And I ask
this question of myself and I ask it of you tonight. How in the
name of common sense can we trust our immortal soul
to our living God and believe He'll save our souls and one
day take us out of the ground and give us eternal life if we
doubt his power to feed these bodies and clothe them and preserve
them and take care of them. Now, how in the world can we
have any faith in him to do these? Christ said, which is easier,
to save thy sins, be forgiven thee, or
take up thy bed and walk? Which is easier? But he can do
both. He can do both, and he has the
power to do both. And I need to get this matter
of faith in line, and I need to get my conduct and conversation
and attitude in line with what my heart believes. Because faith confined to the
walls of a church building is not saving faith. Faith confined to a doctrine
is not saving faith. Well, go back to my text. There's
one comprehensive answer to all of my needs. All of my needs
spiritually, all of my needs physically, all of my needs emotionally,
all of my needs mentally, to all of my needs, to all of my
troubles, to all of my sins. There's one comprehensive answer,
and that's God. My God. My Lord and my God. Isn't that right, Mike? My Lord
and my God. Here and out yonder. That's right. In here and all over here. All right, let's
look at it. When all this was taking place,
verse 4, and Moses, it says, Moses cried unto the Lord. There's
where the answer is. Moses cried unto the Lord. And
he said, Lord, what am I going to do with these people? They're
almost ready to stone me. And the Lord said to Moses, verse
5, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders
of Israel, and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, the Red
Sea. Take it in your hand, and go. And I will stand before you
upon a rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and there
shall come water out of the rock, and the people may drink." Now,
why is this event so special? Well, John read it to us, four
words. That rock was Christ. That rock was Christ. In other
words, what happened to these people there happened as a type,
as an example for us. Turn back to 1 Corinthians 10,
and let's see that word that John read a moment ago. 1 Corinthians chapter 10. Let's look at that again. What
makes this event so special? What makes it so important to
us? Verse 4 says this, and they did all drink the same
spiritual drink, they drank of that spiritual rock that followed
them, that went with them, and that rock was Christ. And verse
6 says, now these things were our examples, our examples, examples. And he said that again in this
scripture that you read a few moments ago, didn't he, John? Look at verse 11. Now, all these
things happened unto them for examples, for the word is types. And they are written for our
admonition and our exhortation and edification, upon whom the
ends of the world have come. This is for us. What God is showing
Israel here is for you and me right now. This is our example. Now I want you to look at it
with me for a few moments, and let me give you four or five
things I see here. Number one, verse one says in
the last line of verse one, there was no water. There was no water
for the people to drink. Now this was a fact. Here Moses
was leading. Moses was leading thousands of
people across the wilderness. across the desert, and there
was no water to drink. And this is true of our day right
here, right here today. There's no water. I'm speaking of our world spiritually. There's no water. That's what
I read at the beginning of this service in Psalm 63. David said
this. Psalm 63, O 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. There's no water. The human well
is dry, the philosopher's well is dry, and the religious well
is dry. There's no water. There's no
spiritual water. There's no food for my soul in
this land. None whatsoever. The disciples
asked the Lord that. They said, who can be saved?
He said, with men it's impossible. Impossible. And Moses stood here
and there was no water. There was no water here. This
land was totally without water. The land couldn't produce any
water and there's no spiritual water to be had anywhere. Now look at verse 4. So Moses
went where he should have gone. He went to the Lord. Now, when
we're talking about spiritual blessings or heavenly blessings
or spiritual life, you don't start with men. This is what
the religious world, this is what they're doing wrong today.
They're going to men on behalf of God. If we're wise, if we're
looking for water to drink and spiritual food to eat, Let's
go to God on behalf of men. We've got this thing backward. They're going to men on behalf
of God, and they're saying, now, God has all this wonderful plan
and all these things, and we're pleading with you and imploring
you and inviting you to straighten up your life and to believe on
God, do something for God. There was no water. The people
were perishing. They couldn't produce any water.
There was no water to be had. Moses didn't go to them and say,
now let's get together and have a prayer meeting and see if we
can make it rain. Let's get together and see if we can figure out
a way to get some water and get God to give us some water. He
just turned his back on the people and went to God. Salvation is of the Lord. Go to God. Don't go to people
on behalf of God. Go to God on behalf of people.
Cry unto the Lord, Moses. Cry unto the Lord. That brings
us to this prayer business a little more. Turn to Romans 9. Turn
to Romans 9. I'm not a fatalist, and I'm not
a hard shell. I'm an evangelical Christian
believer. But I can tell you this, if we
get any water, God's going to give it. If we get any refreshing
from heaven, God's going to send it. If we experience revival,
God Almighty is going to bring it to pass. If our children are
saved, God's going to save them. I just know that. Romans chapter
9, listen to it. He said to Moses, look at verse
15. Romans 9, 15, he said to Moses, I'll have mercy on whom
I will have mercy. I'll have compassion on whom
I will have compassion. So then it's not of him that
willeth, it's not of him that runneth, it's of God that showeth
mercy. The Scripture saith to Pharaoh,
even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might
show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout
all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom
he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. And here Moses stood there and
there's no water. It's fat. There's no springs. The earth
can't produce any water. The people have no water. They
can't produce water. Water cannot be produced. And the people are thirsty. And
Moses did what Moses should have done. He went to God. And I'm
telling you, That's our state. If it's spiritual blessings for
which we're looking and spiritual life and heavenly blessings,
don't go to me. You have to go to God. If you don't
go to me on behalf of God, we go to God on behalf of me. O God, wilt thou not revive us?
Wilt thou not show favor? Wilt thou not bless us? May it
please thee to be merciful to us? He'll save whom he will. Isn't that so? I know it's so. I just, I can't
preach a God who wants to and can't, who wills to and is not
able. Is God's arm too short that he can't save? Is his ear
too heavy that he can't hear? Is anything too hard for God?
Can I not do with my own what I will? I know that. Moses knew that.
Don't get your committees together and go to God. Go to God. All right, let's see what happened.
So verse 5 to verse 6, God said, I'll stand there, I'll stand
before thee there upon the rock. Now, I don't know what the rock
looked like. I don't know how big the rock
was. But I do know this, I do know
that it was only a rock. It was like many other rocks
in that great wilderness. There were a lot of rocks in
that wilderness. It was a rock. And a rock yielding water is
impossible. Water doesn't come out of rocks.
You might drill a hole in the ground and get some water, and
water might come out of the clouds. And you might punch a hole in
a tree and get some oozing material to make some syrup and all that.
But water doesn't come out of rocks. I know that. It does not
come out of rocks. But there was a difference. God
was standing on this rock. That's the whole difference. God was in this rock. And I tell
you this, Moses saw the rock. He saw the rock. It was a rock
among many rocks. It was an ordinary rock. It was
impossible that a rock give water. But Moses had anointed eyes,
and Moses could see what those other fellows couldn't see. He
saw God on this rock. He saw the Lord on this rock. He saw the difference in that
rock. How did he know which one to hit? He knew which one the Lord was in. Paul said that rock was Christ.
And I'll tell you that when our Lord Jesus came to this earth,
He was a rock among many rocks. He was a man among many men.
They looked at Him. Most of them didn't know. They
said, well, aren't you Jesus of Nazareth? Don't we know you? Don't we know your mother and
your father and your brothers and sisters? Aren't you the carpenter? How can you say you knew Abraham? You're not fifty years old. Didn't
they say those things? You're a man. And he asked his
disciples, whom do they say that I am? And they had a lot of things
to say about him. But he said, whom do you say that I am? Peter
had anointed eyes. And if you're here tonight, you
see more than a rock. You see more than a man. You
see God. upon a rock, and God in a man,
the God-man. I do. But verse 6 says, and I'll
stand before you upon that rock and orb, and you shall smite
the rock. Now then, this rock that Moses saw, there was no
water coming out of it, none whatsoever, and no possibility
of any water coming out of it until it be smitten. You see,
that rocks Christ. And Christ being born, coming
into the world as a man, that contributes to my salvation,
enables him to have a body. It behooves him to be made like
unto his brethren, that's so. This man's got to have somewhat
to offer. He's got to have a body of flesh and bones and blood
like I am so he can be tempted, so he can be my righteousness.
But Christ as an infant in Bethlehem didn't save anybody. That's right. I'm trying to be careful where
I'm saying this now. Let's be careful how we say things.
Christ as a man obeying the law didn't affect our salvation.
He gave us a perfect holiness. You know how Christ saved us?
He died for us. He died for, he was smitten for,
he shed his blood. That's how he saved. It's the
blood that makes the atonement for the soul. Your soul that
sinned, it shall die. And Moses walked up to this rock,
this rock of God, this rock which was Christ, in type, in picture,
boys and girls, this is a picture. And he walked up with that rod,
that same rod by which he smote the sea and it divided. And he
smote that rock. And water gushed forth. It was
smitten. Now I ask you this question,
who killed Jesus? I hear these people arguing about
this. I think the Jews and the Italians, the Romans, argued
over this two years ago about who really killed Jesus. The
Romans said, you Jews killed him. And the Jews said, we've
nothing to do with you. Romans did it. We gave him to
you and you killed. God killed him. Now you say, you're a bigger
nut than they are. No. No. He said, no man takes my
life from me. You can't kill God. The Jews
can't kill God. The Romans can't kill God. They
were the instruments. They, with wicked hands, crucified
Him and nailed Him to a cross. He yielded up the ghosts. There
was no way that they could kill him. Turn to Isaiah 53. They couldn't even nail him to
the cross! God Almighty! They were God's
instruments! I'm telling you the truth. God
sent him forth to be a mercy seed. God sent him forth to be
a propitiation. Isaiah 53, look at this. Who
hath believed our report, our gospel? To whom is the arm of
the Lord revealed, the power of God revealed, the salvation
of the Lord? Now watch. He's going to grow up before
him as a tender plant, as a root out of a dry ground, just a common,
ordinary kid. He hath no form or comeliness.
When we shall see him, there's no beauty we should desire in
him, just another rock. He's despised and rejected of
men. A man of sorrow is acquainted
with grief. We hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised. We didn't esteem him. Surely
he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. We did esteem
him stricken, smitten of whom? Smitten of God. Moses took that
rod of God, the rod of God, the rod God gave him on that mountain. You remember, Tom? God said,
what's that? He said, I'm not going to leave those people.
What's that in your hand? And he smoked that rock. It was a
transaction between God and Christ. He smoked that rock. And Christ
was smitten of God and afflicted of God. It was the justice of
God that killed Christ. It was the wrath of God upon
Christ that took his life. Isn't that right? Judgment of
God against us. Look at verse 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He put him to grief. When thou
shalt make his soul an offering for sin, who did it? God did
it. He shall see his seed, his children,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of God the Lord
shall prosper in his hand. Who smote him? God did. Who afflicted
him? God did. Who put him to grief?
God did. Who bruised him? God did. That's
right. Like Moses, God's servant, stood
and smote that rock. On that cross of Calvary, all
these second causes were involved. Denial, the betrayal, the selling
of Christ, the false witnesses, the people harassing and yelling
at him and saying all these things and he got it. Somebody said,
I'd hate to have been the man that drove the nails. He's no
more guilty than you are. I am. I don't care. Driving the
nails didn't kill him. Splitting his side didn't kill
him. The father killed him. That's right. Nail him on that
cross for us. And it's no more difficult for
him to save those people who drove the nails in his hand than
you and I, who would have done it, would have been there. So
it doesn't make any difference. Smite the rock. God set him forth.
And you know what it says? It says that rock followed them. That rock followed them. I'm
so glad of that, that the people drank, the rock yielded abundantly. It required no piping, no purification. It required no merit. It required no return of service,
only drink. Only drink. Oh, everyone that
thirsted, come to the water. And do you know, here's the good
news, you know the people who did the drinking were the people
who did the murmuring. And I got us pretty down a while
ago, didn't I? I started off about how we murmur
and find fault. We do, that's our nature. But
thank God. Thank God the water's not for
the good, it's for the guilty. The water's not for the righteous,
it's for the unrighteous. The water's not for the perfect,
it's for the imperfect. But I want to show you another,
another, just, I've been preaching about 29 minutes, now give me
another 5 or 10. I'm trying to be good. Turn to
Numbers chapter 20. Numbers chapter 20. And I know somebody said, well
just preach on. No. If we're effective, we can
say it pretty quickly, and if we go too long, people forget
what we did say. But you know, this gospel is so precious to
the Father that it doesn't matter who violates it, he's going to
pay. And here's Moses. Now turn to
Numbers 20. Numbers 20. Let me read you something here.
Then came the children of Israel, this is later, the children of
Israel and even the whole congregation into the desert of Zion. In the
first month, the people abode in Kadesh, and Miriam died there
and was buried, and there was no water. But the congregation,
they gathered themselves together against Moses, against Abram.
Here we go again! Isn't that amazing? Here we go again. And the people
chode or strove with Moses and spake, saying, Would God we had
died when our brethren died? Why have you brought up the congregation
of the Lord into this wilderness? We and our cattle die here."
See, we're going to, there's low points and high, we're going
to get in places where there doesn't seem to be any water
either. We don't want to stay on a mountain all the time. And
here they got there. Well verse, let's make it short,
verse 7, the Lord said to Moses, the Lord's pagan to Moses, take
your rod, gather thine the assembly together, thine Aaron thy brother,
you take Aaron with you, the priest. And you see that word
is different here? Speak to the rock. Speak to the
rock before their eyes. This rock is Christ now. He didn't
say smite it, did he? No. Christ didn't smitten but
once. Don't smite again. Once in the end of the world
hath he appeared to put away sin with the sacrifice of himself.
Speak to the rock. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. Speak to the rock. And he'll
give forth water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out
of the rock, so thou shalt give the congregation their beast
to drink. Now watch, and Moses, Moses, God's servant, Moses,
special man, Moses, man of faith, Moses, took the rod from before
the Lord as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered
the congregation together before the rock. He said to them, he's
mad now, here now you rebels, must we fetch water out of this
rock? And Moses lifted up his hand
And with his rod he smote that rock twice. And the water came
out abundantly, and the people drank, and their beast also. And God spoke to Moses and Abel. God called him aside, because
you didn't believe me. Because you believed me not to
sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore
you shall not bring this congregation into the land. which I've given
them. You'll never... Moses left Egypt,
delivered his people, went across that desert for 40 years, all
of the trials and troubles he endured, came to the very edge
of the promised land. God said, you're not going in. You're not going in. I'm going
to deal with you for this. You're not going to violate my
gospel. I don't care who you are. I told
you to speak to that rock. That rock is Christ, and Christ
dies once, Christ is smitten once, Christ suffers once. You
don't do it again, your mass or anything else now. Don't trifle
with the gospel. And I want to show you something
sad. Look down at verse 15, that same chapter, Numbers 20. Look at verse 23, Numbers 20. This is so sad, listen to it.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in Mount Or, by the
coast of the land of Eden, saying, Aaron shall be gathered to his
people, for he shall not enter into the land which I have given
unto the children of Israel, because you rebelled against
my word at the water of Meribah. Take Aaron and Eleazar his son,
and bring them up into Mount Or. and strip Aaron of his garments."
Aaron was the high priest. This is sad. Aaron was the high
priest. Had on the hat, the miter, the
beautiful garments of the high priest. God said, strip him.
And put these garments on Eliezer his son, and Aaron shall be gathered
to his people and die right there. And Moses did as God commanded.
And they went up into Mount Orin, the site of all the congregation,
and Moses stripped Abram of his garments. Don't you know this
was sad? Doesn't that make your heart weep? This man has stood
for years, the right-hand man to Moses, the high priest into
the Holy of Holies, the atonement, the firstborn. But you're not
going to mess with God's gospel now. He's not going to do it. I tremble, I think, let the potsherds
of the earth strive with the potsherds of the earth. Don't
compromise the gospel. Get out of the ministry first.
Do anything, but don't compromise the gospel. Listen, strip him. Verse 28, Moses stripped Aaron
of his garments, put them on Eliezer, his son, and Aaron died
right there on the top of the mountain. And Moses and Eliezer
came down from the mountain. All the congregation saw that
Avon was dead. They mourned for him 30 days.
Was he lost? No. Did he go to glory? Yes. But what a disappointment, what
a shame to end his life in this way. Sad, isn't it? But that's the jealousy of God
over the blood of his son. He will not compromise his gospel.
May God give us the grace and strength and boldness You elders,
this preacher, whoever comes here in this pulpit, preach Christ. Preach Christ. Not for anything
in this world dare we compromise that gospel of Christ.

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Why is it significant that Christ was smitten only once?

What does the story of Israel in the wilderness teach us about human nature?

Why do Christians believe that salvation is solely through Jesus Christ?

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That Rock Was Christ

What does the Bible say about faith in God during difficult times?

How do we know that Jesus is the Rock mentioned in the Bible?

Why is it significant that Christ was smitten only once?

What does the story of Israel in the wilderness teach us about human nature?

Why do Christians believe that salvation is solely through Jesus Christ?

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