<TITLE>11. Par 89-95</TITLE>L-89 But that's where them who live in that place has to suffer with the conditions of that place. And those who desire to live in that kind of an atmosphere of where everything's just punching and fussing, and quarreling and stewing like that, well, you'll just live under that atmosphere; that's all. But we don't have to live there; it's not necessary for us to stay there.
Now, this Horeb was the place where God was discouraged with the people, because they had wondered into this place and had got in this condition. And He brought them right around to it, because that they wouldn't walk in the path. They got off the--the main road, got off over on this side road. And then it caused God to do something that was terrifically. He... 'Caused God to have Moses to take the judgment rod that he had judged the nation with and smite the Rock to bring forth water.
Now, there's a beautiful lesson here if we could just get it. See? And because that we get so out of cater, and world bound, and things, it caused God to take the judgments of the world and smite His Own Son with it at Calvary, that we might go free. Do you see what I mean?

L-92 Now, in order to get these people to some water, after they got over there, this dry place was made a Calvary. And there God told Moses; He said, "Take the rod and the elders, and go forth, and I will stand on the Rock before you." And this Rock was Christ. And Moses, with the rod that he had brought judgment upon the nation of Israel, took this same rod and smote the judgments of God upon the Rock. See? He took the sins of the people onto this rod. Which he should've smote the people, instead of smiting the people he smote the Rock. And the Rock, through a work of God, brought salvation, brought water to a perishing people. It brought life to a dying people. And that's what God did by taking His--His wand of a judgment rod, and winding my sins and your sins around this rod; when it should have struck us, but it struck Christ; that from Him come forth waters, which means "Spirit." The Holy Spirit came forth from Him, to give us Life. Now, we have Eternal Life. Now, that Rock was Christ. Now, we want to notice.

L-93 I've seen so many intellectual drawings of this Rock. I seen one of the most critical ones not long ago, till where there was a--a little rock laying up on top of a hill. And--and Moses was supposed to have smitten this rock, and Israel was down in there with a tea cup, getting them a drink out of a little sprinkle that fell down out of this rock. Now, that is just somebody's idea.
But when this Rock brought forth its waters, there were over two million people, besides the ox, and camels, and everything else that drank in tubs of water from it. It was a gushing stream that come forth out of there.

L-95 That's the way they try to make Christ, the Holy Spirit today. It's just a little sprinkle (See?), just enough to make you believe that there is a God. No. It is an abundance of Water. David said, "My cup runneth over." It's just a gusher of the Holy Spirit.
People are afraid of It. Some people say, "Well, I'm just a little afraid I'll do this or that, or if I happen to go a little too deep. I can show you someone went a little too far." But you never do point to that one didn't go far enough. See? Just how about the ones that didn't go far enough?


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