This Rock is Christ (10-21-10)

1 Corinthians 10:1-5 - "For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, 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 were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness."

This passage speaks about the rock in Exodus 17 as a type of Christ. In Exodus 17:6 we read - "Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 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." 

We're told in 1 Corinthians 10:5 that God was not well pleased with most of the people, yet He still provided water for them. In order for the rock to bring forth water Moses had to strike it with his staff. And when he did that it split and brought forth water. At that point it was up to the people. They could either drink or stay thirsty.
In the same way, when Jesus was talking to the woman at the well in John 4:10-14 we read - "Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." She said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water? You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?" Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.""
Through His death, because He was struck, we are able to obtain eternal life. He offered us living water and if we drink it it will become a well inside of us springing up to eternal life.