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The Uplifted Saviour

As Moses lifted up Even so must the the serpent in the Son of Man be lifted up. look wilderness= and live Whosoever!

Everlasting life Numbers 21:49. John 3:14-15.

This picture recalls a very interesting event in the history of
This picture recalls a very interesting event in the history of

This picture recalls a very interesting event in the history of the Israelites. They were journeying through the wilderness. They suffered many painful hardships. Their trials overtaxed their patience, and at last they began to murmur and complain most bitterly. As a punishment, God sent serpents into their camp, and the murmuring people were bitten by them. "And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." Num. xxi. 6. God is never at a loss for means to punish the wicked. He can make the winds and the waves do His will. Here fiery serpents become the ministers of his wrath. Observe they did not enter the camp and bite simply because it was their nature to do so, for the "Lord sent fiery serpents among the people." Let us take care how we provoke Him. Moses was directed to "make a serpent of brass and set it up upon a pole," and the bitten ones looked upon it and were healed. They did not have to go to it, but only look upon it, and they lived. How simple, how easy the method of their cure. Now, this uplifted serpent reminds us of BLACKBOARD ILLUSTRATIONS, &c. the uplifted Saviour. Read the words of Jesus: "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up." John iii. 14, 15.

This refers to His crucifixion :

He was "taken, and by wicked hands crucified and slain." Acts ii. 23. He was "lifted up" upon the cross, and He suf fered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. 1 Pet. iii. 18. We need a remedy for sin as much as the Israelites needed one for the poisonous bite of the serpent. They found theirs in the uplifted serpent; we find ours in the uplifted Christ. They looked and lived. Are you "looking unto Jesus"? Heb. xii. 2. Hear the command of God: "Look unto me, and be ye saved." Isa. xlv. 22. This you all can do. How simple it is. "Here is one little word of four letter, and two of them are alike! Look." - Spurgeon. Let us look, believe, and live.

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