That Rock Was Christ

1 Corinthians 10:1-4 - For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.


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

Numbers 20:11 - And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

Psalm 105:41 - He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.

John 6:32,35 - Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven… Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Application:

· The water and the manna were supernatural sustenance through Jesus Christ
· Christ is the supernatural Rock
· Do my actions show a lack of trust in God? Do my actions offend God’s holiness?
· God’s power is redeeming.
· God still gives the true bread from heaven (life through the Son).
· Have I come to Jesus? Do I believe in Him?

All Scripture verses taken from ESV