#848 – Look and Live (Numbers 21:4–9)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 5 December 2019
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Summary
All the way back in the book of Numbers we find the anticipation of Jesus being lifted up on a cross to pay the penalty for our sins. We find life by looking to Him in faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Numbers chapter 21 verses 4 through 9 |
| 0:10.0 | from Mount Hoare they set out by the way to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edam, and the people became impatient on the way. |
| 0:20.0 | And the people spoke against God and against Moses. |
| 0:23.7 | Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? |
| 0:27.2 | For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food. Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they |
| 0:35.9 | bit the people so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses and |
| 0:41.7 | said we have sinned for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. |
| 0:46.3 | Pray to the Lord that he take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people. |
| 0:52.4 | And the Lord said to Moses, make a So Moses prayed for the people. |
| 0:52.5 | And the Lord said to Moses, |
| 0:54.4 | Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. |
| 0:58.3 | And everyone who is bitten when he sees it shall live. |
| 1:02.5 | So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. |
| 1:06.8 | And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. |
| 1:14.0 | What an interesting story. |
| 1:16.7 | What an amazing story, really when you think about it. |
| 1:20.0 | Like all of these people, as a result of their sin complaining rebellion grumbling |
| 1:25.7 | before God they begin to experience the judgment of God all these people being bit |
| 1:32.2 | by fiery serpents. |
| 1:35.0 | So Moses intercedes and God provides a way for them to be saved, |
| 1:41.0 | but what an interesting way. |
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