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"That Rock was Christ"
Hurt Road Baptist Church
Bro. Frank McCleod
- Your thirst prevents you from seeing clearly (Ex. 17:3)
- a. It blinds you from seeing the ______ ______ (Ex. 17:3)
- b. It blinds you from seeing God's man [Moses] as exactly that!
(Ex. 17:2, Num. 20:2) - missing the "big picture"
- c. It blinds you from seeing the very love and care of God! (Ex. 17:7)
- Your thirst precedes your finding God's answer. (Ex. 17:4-6)
precedes = "bottoming out"
- a. You murmur while God has a plan worked out [in advance]. (Ex. 17:5-6)
- b. You murmur about how bad it is, looking to the past as good. (Num. 20:5)
- Your thirst prepares you to receive God's answer.
Thirst is good!
- a. You receive what you need from God! (Ex. 17:6b, Num. 20:11)
- b. You receive the answer while yet _____ _____ _____!
(Num. 20:10, Rom.
5:8)
- c. You receive the answer ______ ______! (Num. 20:8, Eph.
2:8-9)
JESUS IS THE ROCK!
You must trust Him in order to have your spiritual thirst quenched.
John 6:35
Jesus said, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger;
and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."
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