Title: The Brass Serpent of Redemption
Contents
Numbers 21:4-9
Brass Serpent of Redemption
The word ransom is a theological term. Instead, it means to atone. Today's sermon is that it is the brass serpent of redemption. The Old Testament Israelites left Egypt. We lived in the wilderness on the way to the Promised Land. Not being able to overcome the suffering in the wilderness, they blamed Moses and God. As an instrument of judgment, God released fiery serpents and made them all die. There are people who repent in this incident. There is also Moses, who prayed earnestly to receive God's disposition. God answered this way. He placed the bronze serpent in the image of the viper that had bitten you to death on a high pole and commanded everyone who was bitten to look at it.
We see dramatic changes in lives that deserve death to those in which life is gained thanks to the brass serpent of the atonement. The saints must understand that Jesus, who quoted John 3:14-15, said that he himself would be exalted on the cross, just as he carried a brass serpent through Moses and was lifted up high in the wilderness.
Our lives, only let us think deeply about why Jesus was hung on the cross and died on the cross.
Because of the merits of the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, which takes care of it instead, we can freely live eternal life and live with the joy of doing God's works, even if it is modest.
It is the grace of God that, by examining the testimonies of the Bible about the “redemption” and taking care of the work instead, my burden has been relieved, the scope of my work has been widened, and I have been able to freely work as much as I want. It is the mercy and prosperity of God who has blessed us through the ransom.
2 Corinthians 5:21 “For God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” Not of perishable things like gold, but of the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” 1 Peter 1:18-19
Don't forget that even if you try to keep the Bible verses hard and forget them sometimes, there is the grace of God that frees sinners so that they can work freely in the grace of atonement. It is history that changes from death to life. The brass serpent of redemption is an event detoxified from the poison of death, and it is a grace that relieves the pain of being strangled in the neck.