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, 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 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.

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.”