{"id":1829,"date":"2024-05-09T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2024-05-06T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:10:48","slug":"lifting-up-the-serpent-part-4-may-9-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/lifting-up-the-serpent-part-4-may-9-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifting Up the Serpent &#8212; Part 4:  May 9, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Recordings\/2024\/Trinity_20240509.mp3\">Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>                    Lifting Up the Serpent - Part 4\n                            Numbers 21:8-9\n                              05\/09\/2024\n\n\n        8    And the LORD said to Moses, ``Make a fiery serpent\n             and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten,\n             when he sees it, shall live.''\n        9    So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a\n             pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look\n             at the bronze serpent and live.  (ESV)\n\n        The children of Israel had grumbled about the food and the\n   problems of their nomadic life.  Because they did not trust God,\n   they were plagued by many venomous serpents.  Finally, they\n   repented and called upon Moses to intercede for them.\n\n        Moses prayed, and God gave him explicit instructions.\n        And the LORD said to Moses, ``Make a fiery serpent and\n        set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he\n        sees it, shall live.''  So Moses made a bronze serpent\n        and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he\n        would look at the bronze serpent and live.\n\n\n        God's instructions to Moses were clear.  When the people\n   bitten by the snakes looked at the bronze serpent on the pole,\n   they believed God's promise that they would not die.  They\n   trusted that this unusual way of dealing with a snake bite would\n   remove the pain and death caused by the venom.  Looking at the\n   bronze serpent required faith in God's Word and promise.  The\n   very promises that the children of Israel had rejected earlier\n   were again made by God, with the visible proof that His Word is\n   true.  There was no power in the bronze serpent, the power was in\n   God's promise of life and redemption.\n\n        This becomes a promise for all people, when God speaks in\n   His Holy Word, we can believe and trust in Him.  When God says,\n   ``Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved,''&#91;1] we\n   know that our only hope for redemption from sin, death, and the\n   power of the devil is through the Son of God.  May our Lord grant\n   us faith to believe in Jesus as our Savior.  Amen.\n ____________________\n\n   1. Acts 15:11<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}