John 3:16 is a perfect type of this Church today, for us. That’s the smitten Rock, Christ, God’s judgments. We being worthy of death, worthy of all this condemnation, and the judgments of God smote the Rock, Christ; and out of Him poured out everlasting water, that a perishing people might not perish, but would have Everlasting Life, coming from the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, which is Jesus Christ, Who’s God’s judgment, smote the innocent one, that we guilty people might drink, and be living. Hallelujah. Oh, how beautiful. “Speak to the rock,” He said, “it’ll bring forth its water.” And they—they went everywhere; they couldn’t find water nowhere. And God told them, “Go, speak to the rock.” Ridiculous, the carnal mind would’ve said, “Why, that’s the driest place in the desert.”

Speak to the Rock, 1953-11-15, Owensboro, KY, §81