"OUR DELIVERER"

There’s an account of old concerning the Israelites (God’s chosen people), in regard to their frustrations which occurred on their way to the Promised Land. Though God provided for their needs and protected them from their enemies, often they would get discouraged due to irritations in their journey.

At the point we’re relating to this day, the people of Israel spoke against God and against Moses. This action brought a rather serious discipline from God. He sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people and many of them died.

Wouldn’t you know, this brought about the recognition of their sin. They asked Moses their leader to pray to God for deliverance. So, he did.

God told him to make a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole and when anyone that is bitten looks on this, he shall live. This Moses did. He made a serpent of brass and put it on a pole. It was just as God said.

This was their deliverance at this time in history. What about deliverance for us today? Can we be delivered from the consequences of sin? If so, how?

Jesus gives us the answer to these questions in John 3:14-17. Jesus was lifted up on a tree just as this serpent was lifted up on a pole.

There was no other balm, ointment, or any other remedy for the children of Israel when they were bitten by the serpents. They had to follow God’s instruction just the way He gave it.

It is no different for us today. Jesus and all that He provided for us by being “lifted up” on the cross, is our only hope for deliverance today.

We must believe. We must look to Him and believe. Brass is known as a symbol of judgment in the Bible. The serpent of brass is symbolic of our Lord and Savior as He became “sin” for us and took the judgment for our sin upon Himself. Oh, what a Savior!

He wants to be your deliverer today! The passages that follow will tell you how.

John 3:14-17

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so, must the Son of man be lifted up:

That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.”

Have a blessed week,

Julie