the revelation of Jesus the serpent was not given in Egypt it was given to the
delivered folks if you are here today and you don't have a relationship with
the Lord I want to introduce you the Lamb of God who came on this earth and
he took your sin upon himself and he paid a penalty in full for all of your
sin his blood is enough to wash everything
you've done I remember talking to a girl who committed abortion and couldn't
forgive herself for what she's done she grew up Catholic and said that I need to
punish myself listen Jesus's blood is enough if it
wouldn't be enough God will tell you so and says you still need to add something
to that God doesn't expect you to pay more or add a tip to that payment but
once you receive forgiveness what a glorious gift that is the weight is
lifted off the pressure the grip of the devil over you is broken you're not done
with God yet God doesn't turn your life over to you and says now you manage it
yourself Jesus says I want to reveal another feature of me to you not only as
a lamb who took your sin I want you to meet a serpent who became a sin because
a serpent it wasn't a real serpent it was a made serpent he didn't take a
serpent from the ground he was bidding people and fried it or put in the oven
and cooked it and hanged it this wasn't like that
he made a serpent out of a bronze and on the cross God made Jesus and Corinthians
we read 2nd Corinthians 5:21 it says he made him who knew no sin meaning there
were there was no serpent he may out of a bronze a serpent he makes Jesus
that has no sin in his thought in his attitude in his motive and Jesus becomes
not just pays for my sin he becomes my sin and why is that necessary because
God doesn't want me to just be delivered from Egypt and become an ex-slave ex
sinner ex loser ex this and acts that God wants me to become righteous
righteous is more than just unredeemed it's more than just my sins are paid for
it's more than just God wiped the record clean and I am going to heaven when I
die that's forgiveness that's redemption that's eternal life but righteousness
meaning you lived your life right it's not just you lived your life pure and
innocent you lived your life right there is a reward for that and that my friend
is what Jesus became in the wilderness for Israel that's what he became on the
cross for you as a Christian otherwise you will live your life being bitten by
the serpents of your mistakes your shortcomings your failures you're not
measuring up you're breaking your own New Year's resolutions
you're losing your streaks and the Bible app you're constantly tripping into this
falling into that slipping into this you're not good enough after Egypt the
Lord does not want you to elevate your wounds your faults your shame and your
guilt as a point of gazing upon he didn't ask Israel to study and to
investigate and to gaze upon where the snake bit he says lift your eyes from
your faults I know you've been delivered but you're about to be transformed
because you fix your eyes upon a snake but I thought the lamb to cover the
Egypt Egypt Egypt problem yes but Egypt is gone you still have you and the you
gets you in trouble do you get you bitten do you hurts the you trips up do
you yes the you the people chosen by God in the wilderness complain maybe in your
wilderness you give up maybe in your wilderness you fell into something or
tripped into something and the guilt eats you like a poison like a venom goes
into your system and God says I didn't just deliver you from Egypt I wasn't
just your lamb I'm also your serpent