Title: Look and Live
Num 21:4~9 As you look, you will live Topic: 11. Salvation 2007. 8. 12.
◎ Introduction
: It is necessary to pay attention to the text because it is talking about the most urgent need of man.
※ The brass serpent is a description of the Savior Jesus Christ (4~9).
※ The journey in the wilderness was difficult and difficult. (They must have been tired every day at sunset).
※ They once again began to attack God and His beloved servants
1. Tragic Situations (4-6)
2. The Grace of Salvation (7~9)
1. Tragic Situations (4-6)
One). Grieving and complaining (4-5)
※ The Israelites had to go around the land of Edom.
※ The king of Edom not only rejected Israel's request, but also threatened to attack Israel.
※ Moses begged twice, but the king of Edom refused and threatened him, so he had to go around the land of Edom.
※ They were exhausted, tired, and irritable, and they began to grumble and complain against God and Moses.
① They asked why they had brought them out of Egypt and dragged them into the desolate wilderness to suffer. There is no water or bread in the wilderness.
② They said, “I hate this trivial food.”
* The people have always complained to God during their wanderings in the wilderness. He now said that he hated God-given manna as “this little food,” and even cursed it.
2). Jehovah's Choice (Judgment and Discipline) (6)
※ Because of the people's attitude of resentment, complaints, and curses, God had no other choice.
Now he had no choice but to judge them and severely chastise them.
※ The Lord sent fiery serpents among them to bite, and many people died.
※ “Fire snakes” refer to poisonous snakes.
* The poison was powerful, and it was the kind of poison that caused painful and terrifying deaths.
2. The Grace of Salvation (7~9)
One). Confession and repentance of the people (7)
※ “When the people came to Moses…” The people confessed their sins to the Lord and Moses and told God.
I asked him to get rid of the fiery serpent.
※ Moses, the servant of God, asked the people to forgive him for the sins of the people who attacked him and the Lord once again.
begged
※ Moses loved the people, so he became their mediator and helper before God.
2). Jehovah's response (8)
※ “The LORD said to Moses...” He tells you to make a fiery serpent and hang it on a pole.
※ There are conditions for salvation and healing.
① Salvation: Those who want to be saved must look at the snake on a pole.
② Healing: If he looks at him, he will live in hope of healing.
※ This is one of the great symbols of Jesus Christ.
* This event symbolized Christ's hanging on a tree for the sins of the world.
* Jesus himself testified to this event by referring to it. (John 3:14-16)
“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, for everyone who believes in him must
that you might have eternal life, because God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son
so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:14-16).
3). Moses' obedience and consequences (9)
① Moses' obedience
* Moses, in obedience to God's command, hung the brass serpent on the pole.
② Only those who looked were saved.
* There was salvation, but only a few people did.
* Only those who looked at the serpent and believed God's promise were healed and revived. This is a description of the salvation that will come by looking in faith to the cross of Jesus Christ. (John 3:14-15)