<TITLE>18. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 I think that's about the feeling of every believer this morning. I'm not wanting to go to heaven to wear a crown. I'm not wanting to go there to have a robe on. I want to go there to see Him Who loved me and redeemed me when I was all undone and out in the world, and washed me, and renewed me, and made me a new creature in His Presence. That's Who I want to go see.
I want to see Him. I don't care about one these, if this place has got pomegranates, one that's got good times, whether it's got starvation, whether it's got whatever it is, there's nothing can separate us from the love of God that's in Christ Jesus. I believe that's about the--the judgments this morning, the things that people do.
And remember, friends, the only way that you can have that this morning, Someone stood in your place. God so loved the world that He gave--put all of His great judgments upon Him.

L-51 Look at there at that rock when He called them out there before the rock. They smote the rock and it had a cleft in the side. Now, that stick that was in Moses' hand was not Moses' stick; that was God's stick. It was God's judgment rod.
Watch how He judged Israel with that rod. He come out there and Moses held the rod out, flies came. He held the rod out, boils came. And judgment was poured out upon Egypt because of that judgment stick. It was God's judgment was in the stick. And notice, that judgment, when drought struck the rock and there was a cleft in the Rock, and that Rock was Christ Jesus. And all of the judgment that you ought to be, and you receive, every one of you believers this morning, all the judgments that you ought to have had, all the condemnation, and all the going away, all the un--unpleasantness that you've done, God in His love struck all those on His Son Christ Jesus. And He was struck in the side like the rock was.

L-52 And out of the rock came water. And a perishing people that was dying of thirst, lived because that the judgment stick of Moses--or God's judgment stick in Moses' hand, yielded to the side of the rock brought forth life to the dying congregation. What a beautiful fulfillment now this morning: God so loved the world, the ungodly, the unlovely, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever should--believeth in Him should not perish.
But the judgment... I ought to have died a sinner. You ought to have died a sinner. We're not worthy of heaven. And there's nothing we could ever do that would make us worthy. And just look how we've treated Him. Aren't you kinda a little ashamed yourself this morning? I am. The way we treated Him, and yet, in His mercy God took all my sin and placed them upon His Son. And there the judgment sliced His side in two, pulled the crown out over His head, and the tears and spit and everything running down His side. He paid the price that you and I would never have to stand in the judgment.

L-53 I think of that little song,
Oh, what precious love that Father,
Had for Adam's fallen race.
Gave His only Son to suffer,
And redeem us by His grace.
See Him hanging on Mount Calvary
Suffering there in bitter agony,
Crying Eli, Eli, Father,
Why hast Thou forsaken me?
Said, "Being forsaken in life, being forsaken in death, and all the wrath of God poured upon Him and He stood our judgments. And God, He took our judgments and bore them away into an isolated place, into the regions beyond; and the law--laws of God condemned and put the damned, and He took our sins there. And resurrected again on Easter morning for our justification, now stands in the Person of the Holy Spirit to save every lost sinner in the world. Let's pray.


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