The Bronze Serpant

Text: Numbers 21:4-9.

Intro:

Vs 4, Impatience

Rebellion, Back to the world

Vs 5, Complaining

Complaining about what God has done for them

Vs 6, Fiery Serpents

Seraphim ha nehasim

first word - seraphim (kind of heavenly being, a kind of serpent, fiery or burning

Second - Nehasim (serpent, snake, dragon,

Sin

Vs 7, Intercession

repentance

Moses the intercessor

Vs 8, The Serpent on a Pole

the foolishness of God

Jericho, Naaman

Jesus/ The Gospel, 1 Cor. 1:18, 25, 27-28.

Pointing to Christ

John 3:14-15.

it wasn't the faith but the object of their faith that would do the healing

Vs 9, Providing

He didn't take away the serpents

using what hurt them to heal them

death to create life

Adam/Christ

Romans 5.