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*/Facing Our Fears, Receiving God’s Riches/*
March 26, 2006
John 3:14-21
V As we go through the motions of life, we can so often find ourselves *entangled in sins* because we have allowed our eyes to *wander from the Lord*.
/But the people grew impatient along the way, 5// and they began to murmur against God and Moses./
Numbers 21:4-5
V In our sin we often mistake the leading of God through His *Word and Church* as hindrances.
/“Why have you brought us out of //Egypt// to die here in the wilderness?” they complained.
“There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink.
And we hate this wretched manna!”/
Numbers 21:5
V It is often the *pain of our sins* that drive us to look to the Lord for *healing and hope*.
/6// So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among them, and many of them were bitten and died.
7// Then the people came to Moses and cried out, “We have sinned…”/
Numbers 21:6-7
V Too often, though, we want to *ignore the sin* that has entangled us and to just receive the *healing*.
/Pray that the Lord will take away the snakes./
Numbers 21:7
/“How can this be?”
Nicodemus asked./
John 3:9
V In order for us to receive the *healing of the Lord*, we must look upon the source of our sickness – *sin*.
/8// Then the Lord told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to the top of a pole.
Those who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!”/
Numbers 21:8
/14// And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so I, the Son of Man, must be lifted up on a pole, 15// so that everyone who believes in me will have eternal life./
John 3:14-15
V When we look to the *Cross of Christ* we come face to face with the sin that placed Him there – *our sin*.
/19// Their judgment is based on this fact: The light from heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.
20// They hate the light because they want to sin in the darkness.
They stay away from the light for fear their sins will be exposed and they will be punished./
John 3:19-20
V It is the instrument of *death* that represents for us *new life*.
The cure for death is *Death*!
/9// So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to the top of a pole.
Whenever those who were bitten looked at the bronze snake, they recovered!/
Numbers 21:9
/16// “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.//
17// God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it./
John 3:16-17
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