Title: Jesus on the Cross (2012.8.19)
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Date: August 19, 2012
Word: Jesus on the Cross
Title: Numbers 21:4-9
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To explain the text, when Israel's murmuring and murmuring exceeded the level, God sent a fiery serpent to bite the people of Israel in order to prevent Israel from being destroyed by murmuring and resentment.
There are two main lessons to be learned from this text.
To live a life of gratitude without grumbling and complaining, and to look at Jesus who was crucified with a broken heart.
Why were the people's hearts broken? In verse 4, they were hurt because of the way they were going.
We must remember that life is not always a smooth path.
There are difficult paths and easy paths in life.
The important thing is which way is the way God wants the Lord to go.
The hearts of the people resent the leaders and God.
Complaining and resentment are forbidden because they lead to disobedience and eventually to the enemy.
When a leader listens to a lot of resentment, he loses courage and his judgment is weak.
Discernment is blurred, making judgment difficult.
Aaron lost his judgment of faith at the sound of the people's loud clamor and eventually made a golden calf.
Moses eventually misses his staff because of the people's anger and requests.
What is God's way of healing?
He asked them to make a bronze snake and place it on a pole.
Why is it a bronze snake and why is it hung high on a pole?
Because death and suffering came because of the fiery serpent.
It is because your sins are grumbling and murmuring and being bitten by fiery serpents.
That's how you make sure everyone can see.
This is a model of Jesus hanging high on the hill of Golgotha.
The atoning Lord who bore the burden of sin became a vicious sinner who was hung high on the cross.
Today, all of our lives became slaves to sin like those who were bitten by fiery serpents and were thrown into death, but God gave Jesus for our lives and carried the burden of our sins and was crucified. He is freed from death and given life.