Who Is Jesus? Chapter 5 - Water from a Rock





Who Is Jesus? Chapter 5 - Water from a Rock (That Rock is Christ)



We are reminded that the Old Testament offers types, shadows and pictures of Jesus.
Today we will consider bread, water and a rock.

Every morning the children of Israel were fed bread from heaven, and they called it manna. And we considered in the New Testament that Jesus said, "I am the bread from Heaven, and I am the bread of Life." Now we turn to look at a need for water to quench thirst.

As the Children of Israel traveled to an area where there was no water; They complained with loud murmuring to Moses. Both they and their herds were thirsty and they let Moses know it. Moses cried onto God saying, "What shall I do, these people are ready to stone me?" God gave Moses instructions to strike the rock at Horeb with his rod, and water gushed out like a river.

Exodus 17:6 "Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

The prophet Nehemiah 9:15,20 praises God for what He did for them in the wilderness.

You provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger, You brought forth water from a rock for them for their thirst, And You told them to enter in order to possess The land which You swore to give them. You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, Your
Manna You did not withhold from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.

We now are to consider that this recount of the Children of Israel receiving water from a rock is also a picture of Christ Jesus.

Jesus spoke of Himself as being the Living Water to quench our thirsty spirits.
John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

John 7:38-39, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them." By this he meant the Holy Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Paul and Peter are reminding us that Jesus is the rock that we can trust to build our life on as a solid foundation.

1 Corinthians 10:4 And all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

1 Peter 2:4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God. Jesus is calling today: "Will YOU come to me and I will give YOU living water?”

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