1. Snakes, A Standard & Salvation
Numbers 21:1-10

2. Background
Numbers 20

3. Background Numbers 20 Miriam has passed Numbers 20:1
Aaron has passed Numbers 20:28
They were not granted passage through the land of Edom Numbers 20:14-18

4. Background

5. Background

6. The Complaint
1.) They grew impatient

7. The Complaint 1.) They grew impatient Numbers 21:4
2.) The questioned God’s intentions Numbers 21:5

8. The Responses Israel started speaking against God Numbers 21:5
Israel started speaking against Moses

9. The Responses Israel Typically Complained
They complained about Moses talking to the Pharaoh and the Pharaoh making it worse for everyone– Exodus 5:1-22
They complain about the bitter water – Exodus 15:22
The people complain there is no food; God gives them Manna – Exodus 16:1-4
The people complained about being thirsty – Exodus 17:1-4
Miriam and Aaron complain about Moses’ leadership – The Lord allows Miriam to contract leprosy – Numbers 12:1-12
The people complain the giants that are in the promise land refuse to enter the Promise Land. Only two spies were spared from God’s judgment and the whole congregation wanders in the wilderness. Numbers 14:1-10

10. The Responses
God sends Snakes

11. The Responses God sends Venomous Snakes
Israel repents and ask for help (Numbers 21:7)

12. The Responses God sends Venomous Snakes
Israel repents and ask for help (Numbers 21:7)
Moses intercedes for the people(Numbers 21:7)

13. The Responses
5 Times when Moses Interceded for the congregation of Israel
When they worshiped the golden calf- Exodus 32:10-12
When Miriam and Aaron complain- Numbers 12:13
When they complain about Moses & want to kill him Numbers 14:12
When key elders rebel against Moses Numbers 16:22
When Moses is accused of killing God’s people Numbers 16:45-49

14. The Salvation
8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
-Numbers 21:7-8

15. We have been bitten
For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. (Romans 2:5)

16. The Salvation
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:14-16

17. What God Wants
A relationship with you where you trust Him and Him alone with your life;
Right now
Tomorrow
And for all eternity