"Mirror To God" -2

"For the word of the LORD is right; and all His works are done in truth." (Psalms 33:4) I know that many may not understand how this works, but sin actually saved us from sin; as strange as that might sound. Just as that serpent fashioned from brass, which was a snake, although not a real snake, it was made in the image of a snake to cure those that would look upon it from the fatal bites of real snakes. Do you see what I am talking about, and why it was that I began to weep during my message? Man brought the curse of sin upon us all by the sin of Adam, therefore, God fashioned His brilliancy in the form of a man to heal mankind from the bite of sin. Just as Moses was instructed by God to fashion a serpent, not to use a real serpent, God did not use a man born of man's seed, but made one born of His Spirit: His brilliancy, as in brazen. If you think about all those that died in the wilderness because they did not look upon that brazen serpent that was lifted up; having been made sick and dying by the bite of a snake, and not seeing the snake as the source of their healing, neither wanting to look upon it, they died instead. How much does that compare to Jesus on the cross? As we see countless people, who do not see how someone that hung upon a cross two thousand years ago can have any effect whatsoever on their current state, nor do they want to look upon Him for the Salvation that they need from an eternity in hell. Really, that's the significant thing that brings the serpent and Jesus to a spectacular union: how those that were bitten, were poisoned by the venom, and were destined to die because of the poisoning; all because of rebellion against God: and we, as those bitten by the poison of sin, are destined for hell, all because of the rebellion against God in the Garden. Yet, all that we need to do to be healed from the poison of sin, and to live, is to look upon the cross; the cross which bore the Son of God, fashioned in the image of the source of that poison, and taking on that poison upon Himself, that we might no longer be suffering from it's bite, and no longer destined for hell. I don't know about you, but I cry when I think about those that do not look, only because they mock His ability to heal them, because they do not see who He was, why He came, or understand their real need for Salvation; just as those that did not look, who could not see the significant reason that they were to look upon that serpent, nor did they care to try and understand; but continuing in that rebellious spirit, they held out for another cure, or the chance to feel better; only to find out that death was emanate and real without looking upon that serpent lifted up. Hell is real also, and it was to free us from the jaws of hell that Jesus came, because that is where we will go without looking up to the cross and believing on the only begotten Son of God... "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:11-15)