Seize the Moment – Day 584

 

A Way of Salvation!

Numbers 21

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, October 22.

 

There is a way of salvation!

 

Numbers 21 is a travel log with three stories of military conflict (1-3, 21-35) and one story of God’s righteous judgment against Israel for their grumbling and complaining, again.

 

But God … God made a way of salvation during His righteous judgment of their rebellion. Watch the scene unfold in verses 6-9,

 

The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.” And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

 

Did you know that Jesus used this story to illustrate God’s way of salvation through faith in Him? Listen to John 3:14-16,

 

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

 

There is a righteous judgment for rebellion, but God made a way for salvation to those who would put their faith in Jesus lifted up on the Cross for the forgiveness of their sins.

 

Seize the moment and put your faith in Jesus Christ, crucified, risen, and coming again!

 

God bless your day!
 
 
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