When Israel grumbled against God and Moses, God sent vipers into the camp. But when they repented, God told Moses to craft a brass snake and lift up in the sight of the people. Whoever looked at that brass snake would live.
The Lord Jesus compared that event to his crucifixion and told Nicodemus that he could be saved simply by believing in Christ and his finished work on the cross.
The brass snake had two functions: it was an immediate means of healing people who were bitten by the deadly vipers in the wilderness and it was a foreshadowing of the crucifixion of Christ and God's plan of salvation.
Yet Israel made an idol out of this object that God himself had instituted for their deliverance and instruction. When she worshipped the brass snake, that object had to be destroyed. Are there any brass snakes in your life, things that God himself used in your past but which have become your object of worship instead of God?
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Bob Vincent
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
