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On today's episode, you'll hear a keynote message from Jen Wilkin, originally given at TGC's

2022 Women's Conference. Well, here we are. We are going to be in numbers chapter 21 and I hope

you are ready because I have been thinking about this for quite some time and I need to get this

out of my head. So, numbers chapter 21, we find a story that you've probably heard before but you

may not have spent a lot of time thinking about. I'm going to cover a total of five verses today

which is not my usual thing and so I am going to take us to several other passages in the

scripture so that we can see exactly how beautiful this story is. But in numbers chapter 21,

we have a story that I remember from when I was in vacation Bible school. I had this distinct

memory of being responsible for putting all the little tiny serpents up onto the board

to bite the Israelites and feeling pretty great about it and so we get to now take an opportunity to

spend a significant amount of time looking at the story of the bronze serpent. Are you there

numbers chapter 21? Okay, starting in verse four, says from Mount Hore, they set out by way to the

red sea to go around the land of Edom and the people became impatient on the way. Now let me just

stop and just get situated in the story. So do you see how I said we only had five verses and

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