<TITLE>19. Par 199-207</TITLE>L-199 Complaining, always murmuring, "I don't know what to do." Oh, my, murmuring. Left the garlic pots, to eat Angel's food. Left the boasting physicians of Egypt, to be with the Great Physician. Left a bunch of people who said, "The days of miracles is past," my, goodness, to be with those people where miracles and all things are possible. Right with that bunch, still complaining. That's right. What a condition. They left the muddy waters of Egypt, to drink from the Fountain that never run dry, still complaining. No wonder their supply was cut off.
That's what's the matter today. The supply's been cut off because you're murmuring too much. "What about the task of the deacons? My church says..." Oh, quit, brother. Look to Christ. They followed the...

L-201 Then, the first thing you know, Moses said, "Bring them out here. Bring them out here."
And God said, "Speak to the Rock, and It'll bring forth Its water." And when he spoke to the Rock... Now, he took, first, and smote that Rock with a rod. And when he smote, that Rock, that rod was God's judgment rod. It wasn't a rod of Moses. God held, had Moses in His hand.
And what that rod was in Moses' hand, is Jesus' Name in the church today. That's right. That's the truth, brother. If those Egyptians could've ever got that rod out of his hand, he was powerless. If they can ever take the Name of Jesus away from the church, and get you away; you'll go out and blaspheme It and make fun of It, and everything else, and try to come in and pray in It. You can't do that. Got to keep It sacred. That's right.

L-204 "Oh, take the Name of Jesus with you, child of sorrow and of woe. When temptations around you gather, breathe that holy Name in prayer." Devils will scatter, like roaches on a floor when the light's turned on. Truly.

L-205 Here they are. My. He said, "Bring them out there." And he took this judgment rod, and he smote the Rock. And when he hit the Rock, there was a cleft in the side of the Rock.
And that Rock was Christ Jesus. Thanks be to God. It's God's judgment for you and I, a wicked sinner, worthy of death, worthy of separation. God's judgment was, "The day you eat thereof, that day you die." And His judgment smote Him on Calvary, and there He hung, bleeding, bleating, dying. Adam's Lamb hanging there, Abel's Lamb, rather, Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

L-207 And out of there, a very beautiful parable. What was that lifted up for, the brazen serpent? For healing. Compound reason: When they needed healing, they lifted up a brass serpent. What was it? Because they were murmuring, chiding against God and Moses. And it was for a compound reason, for they were murmuring, sinning, and they were sick and needed healing.
"And Moses," as Jesus said, "as Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness (just for the same purpose, same cause, same atonement), so must the Son of man be lifted up (compound reason) to save your soul."
And the smitten Rock that brought forth the water, that belched out into the land, to save a perishing people. "God so loved the world," in the New Testament, the type of it, the antitype, rather, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have Everlasting Life." There you are. As that was for a perishing, dying, helpless people, that the brass serpent was lifted up, the smitten Rock was smitten to give forth Life and healing and peace, to those people, so God lifted up His Son that you should not perish but would have Everlasting Life.


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