Well, good evening. Turn to your
text, Numbers chapter 21. Numbers 21, we're just going
to bite off five verses tonight. You guys are going to be very
familiar with them, I do believe. Numbers chapter 21, pick up in
verse four. This is talking about the children of Israel in the
wilderness. And they journeyed from Mount
Hor, Numbers 21 verse 4, and they journeyed from Mount Hor
by the way of the Red Sea to compass the land of Edom. And
the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
And the people spake against God and against Moses, wherefore
have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in this wilderness?
For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soul
loatheth this white bread. And here's the judgment for that
unbelief and that disobedience. And the Lord sent fiery serpents
among the people. And they bit the people. And
much people of Israel died. Therefore, the people came to
Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the
Lord and against thee. Pray unto the Lord that he take
away serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
And the Lord said unto Moses, make thee a fiery serpent and
set it upon a pole, and it shall come to pass that everyone that
is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 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. Let's give the backstory on this,
shall we? So at this time, the children of Israel have been
delivered from the bondage of Egypt. They've watched the 10
plagues come down. They've been delivered from Egypt. They've ported through
the Red Sea. The Lord ported the sea for them.
They walked along dry ground. They've been promised a land,
a land called Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey.
And the Lord brings them to the edge of that land. He says, go
get it. Jerus, I've given it to you. Go in there. I've already
fought the battle for you. You're going to win. Go get it.
And they wouldn't. They sent spies into the land
for 40 days. And the spies come back with this report. They say,
listen, there's a bunch of big dudes in there, big tall guys,
big giants. We can't take them. We'll get
slaughtered. We can't take them. And the people
start murmuring against the Lord. He brought us here to die. We
can't take them. They did not believe God. They
did not trust him. He had promised them the land,
but yes, they would not trust him. And their unbelief led to
a rebellion. They said, we will not go. We're
not going to the land. The Lord sends a judgment against
them for this, for their unbelief and for the rebellion. He says,
this elder generation, y'all are going to wander out here
for 40 years. One year for every day you send a spy into that
country, 40 years you're going to wander out here, and all that
elder generation, all your carcasses are going to fall in the wilderness,
except for two, Joshua, Christ, and Caleb, the faithful dog,
the Lord's people. That's the type there. Where
we pick up in this story, as I understand it, is the end of
that 40-year judgment. They've come to the very end
of it. They're just about to reach the end of that judgment.
They're positioned on the outskirts of a land called Edom. And as
I understand it, so Edom separates them from Canaan. And it's just
a day's journey. If they're to travel straight
through Edom, they will get to Canaan in just one day. That's
how close they are, right? So they go to the king of Edom,
and they say, we just want safe passage. We just want to travel
through your land. We don't want to make war with you. If we drink
any water, we'll pay for it. If we eat any food, we'll pay
for it. We're not freeloaders. We don't want to make war. We just want
to go travel straight through your land. And the king of Edom
says, no. You're not coming through. And so they were traveling towards
Canaan. And now they have to turn around and they have to
go back the way they came. You can imagine they're traveling
for 40 years, it's very discouraging. Let's pick up back in verse four
and let's read what happens here. And they journeyed from Mount
Hor by the way of the Red Sea to compass the land of Edom.
They couldn't go through it, so they got to compass it. And
the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
And the people spake against God and against Moses, wherefore
have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
There is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soul
loatheth this light bread. Now, I heard probably six months,
a year ago, a preacher say this. I think it was Todd. He said,
if you want to research church history, right, what you need
to do is just look at the history of the children of Israel in
the wilderness. You'll find all the church history you need. These people
were ungrateful. They were idolaters. They were
unbelieving, and they were rebellious. That's who these people were.
If you want to know your history and my history, that's us. Unbelieving,
ungrateful, idolatrous, and rebellious. There's church history in just
a nutshell. The first thing I notice here, though, number one, they
lied. They said there's no food, there's no bread, there's no
water. They lied. The Lord provided that for them
every single day. But look how they talk about the manna. He
says, our souls loathe this light bread. That word loathe, you
know what it means? means it makes me want to vomit. That
is the translation there. They loathe the light bread.
What does the light bread represent? What does the manna represent?
It's Christ. In John 6, 48, the Lord said,
I am the bread of life. It represents the Lord Jesus
Christ. The parallels between the manna and the Lord Jesus
Christ are really interesting. I'm going to give them to you.
I'm going to give you seven things in rapid succession. Try to stay with me. All right.
Now, number one, this manna fell. after a great disobedience. The
children of Israel, it was just right after the Red Sea, they
had come through the wilderness and now they're hungry, right?
And they say, oh, what a God, we should have died in Egypt.
You brought us out here to die. And, you know, we, at least we
had the flesh plots. At least we had bread in Egypt. And they
started murmuring against the Lord. In response to that, the
Lord rained something down on them. Now, if it were me, what
would I have rained down on them? Fire. I've brought you all this
way. I've brought you out of Egypt.
I've parted the sea for you. You still won't believe me. Here's
where I'm going to rain down on you. Fire." That's not what the Lord
did, though, because he's merciful to his people. He had bread rain
down. Bread rained down to heaven.
This man fell after a great disobedience. The Lord Jesus Christ came down
to heaven after a great disobedience. Man sinned. as a great mercy. He could have just wiped us all
out, but he didn't. He had such love for his people, and such
honor for his Father, he came into this world to save his people
after that great disobedience. Now, you can follow it in Exodus
chapter 16. This manna is described as being small. Now, we think
of bread, we think of these loaves of bread, right? Big puffy things.
That wasn't the manna. It was a small thing. It was
like a pebble, right? A very tiny little thing. This
is what the Lord said about himself in Matthew 11, 29. I am meek
and lowly in heart. I just want you to consider that
for a second. This is the God of all glory, the sovereign of
the universe, the one who controls everything and makes everything
and lives for his own glory. And what is his attitude? I'm
meek and I'm lowly in heart. If you and I have an accomplishment,
what do we do? We let everybody know, right? We're going to plaster
it all over the place, let everybody know. This man, the only man
who has ever actually accomplished anything, what does he say about
himself? I'm meek. I'm lowly in heart. It was small. The manna was round.
So he picked it up. It looked like a pebble, a perfectly
round thing. If you pick up a marble, right, and you look at it, try
to find on that marble where it begins and where it ends.
You won't be able to. It's a perfect sphere. It just
keeps on going over and over and over. That's the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's eternal. He always has been, and He always
will be, and everything He's done, I'm gonna try to say this
right, everything He's done has always been done. Everything
He's done is eternal. As soon as He purposes it, and
He has already purposed all things, it's done. Everything is just
playing out in time right now. The scripture records that He
is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. This is what this
tells me. There was never a time where
the souls of the Lord's people hung in the balance, and the
angel sat back and said, will they be saved? Will they not?
Will he win? Will he accomplish what he set
out to do? There was never a time, there
was never a time the souls of the Lord's people hung in the
balance. We have always been eternally secure because the
Lord Jesus Christ is eternal, and everything has already been
accomplished. It was small, it was round, it was white, white. Now you've seen shades of white
before, I have no doubt. Maybe you've seen it on a car.
A bright shining white, nice and glossy. I guarantee you there
was never a shade of white more bright and more blemishless than
the manna. When you picked it up, I bet
it was shown. Here's why. It speaks of the purity of the
Lord Jesus Christ. His sinlessness, his perfect
righteousness, the very righteousness of the saints. It tasted of wafers
and honey. Christ has a sweet savor to his
people. It satisfied them. Now, I get
that they're not satisfied here, right? We say we loathe this
light bread. That's not what I'm talking about.
Every morning they woke up, this manna was there, and they ate
it, and nobody walked away hungry. Everybody got full every single
day. It satisfied. The Lord Jesus Christ satisfied
all the demands of his Father on behalf of all his people.
Last thing, this manna was faithful for 40 solid years, whether they
were obedient, or disobedient, or whatever happened, this manna
came down from heaven and it fed them every single day. The Lord Jesus Christ is faithful.
He is worthy of your trust. He is so worthy of your trust,
the Father trusted him. The Father gave the elect to
Christ, said, you're gonna stand as their surety. The Father was
the one who first trusted Christ. If the Father is willing to trust
Christ, is he not worthy of my feeble trust? He absolutely is. I say again, though, how did
they feel about what they called the life bread? They said, we
loathe it. It makes us want to vomit. We're
discontented with it. Why is that? Why is the natural
man so discontented with Christ? Why do they loathe him so much?
It is just this simple. It is the manner by which he
saves. He saves by grace. And if salvation is by grace,
that excludes something for man, glory. It absolutely excludes
any type of glory for man. And that is what man wants more
than anything in the world. He wants to stand somewhere and
say, I've done something, notice me, give me some praise. And
there will never be anyone in heaven that has been saved that
will be able to say, I'm here because I, they will simply say,
I'm here because of him. That's it. What we love, they
hate. Suit yourself. But I'm satisfied. You can look at their attitude
here. They were discouraged. Now you think about this. They
had been wandering through this wilderness for 40 solid years.
I'd have been discouraged, too. And now they're just about to
enter Canaan. They're almost there. And now
they've got to turn around. They've got to backtrack. And I kind of looked at a map
on this. Where most people think this was, this is a mountainous
region. It is craggy. It is hot. It's full of sand.
Completely and utterly unforgiving. And they're discouraged. They're
discouraged because of the way. That word, discouraged, means
short. There's three ways I think we can look at that. Number one,
they were short of breath. These people were exhausted.
They had been traveling for 40 solid years, and they were flat
out exhausted. This is Job 14.1. Man that is born of a woman is
a few days and full of trouble. What can I expect in this life?
I can expect trouble. I can expect that the way is
going to be hard. This life is not fun. Let's be
honest. It is flat out exhausting. It makes you short of breath.
But recognize this, it is for a purpose. It is to teach us
that this is not our home. that we are just strangers in
pilgrims and we are just passing through. And if everything was
sunshine and rainbows all the time, we just want to stay. I'm
a stranger here. I'm just passing through and
it's not fun. That's right. It's exhausting. But after we
cross over Jordan, like Don read last week, we see the Lord face
to face. It's fine. Everything's fine.
It's going to be exhausting for a while, but it's going to be
fine. They were short of breath. They were short of memory. Now,
you think about everything they had been delivered from up to
this point. They had seen the plagues rain down on Egypt, right?
They had been delivered from Egypt. They'd seen the Red Sea
poured out for them. The Lord turned bitter water
sweet for them. They needed water. The Lord provided the rock, the
smitten rock, that picture of Christ. It was smitten, and life
flowed from that rock, life-giving water. He provided manna from
heaven. It came down every single day. In every trouble and every
difficulty, the Lord provided for them every single time, and
they could not remember that. They never would remember that.
It was the same old cycle for Israel. The Lord would deliver
them. They would rejoice for the while. Trouble would come
again. They would murmur in unbelief, the Lord would deliver them again.
And they were short of memory. They could not remember that
every single time he was faithful to deliver them. All it adds
up to is they were short of faith. They would not believe God constantly
in unbelief. They never would simply trust
him. Yes, things are hard. Yes, whatever's
going on is going on. He is going to deliver us. He
knows best. They never would trust God. Now, folks, I want
you to understand something. I want to bring this out. What
is my problem? What is my problem and what's
your problem? It's sin, right? I just heard
somebody say it. Sin is my problem. Your sins have separated you
from your God. Nobody's going to argue with
you about that. I want you to understand something. Your sin
will not separate you from Christ. This man is the friend of sinners.
This man receiveth sinners and eats with them. In fact, sinners
are the only people he'll accept. He is a great physician, he only
takes the terminal cases, and he has a 100% success rate. Only
sinners he'll accept. It won't be your sin that'll
keep you from Christ, but unbelief will. The fact that you will
not come to him, the fact that you will not trust him, that
will separate you from Christ. And unbelief is the greatest
rebellion that has ever been. You are commanded to believe
on Christ. I am commanded to believe on Christ. We are commanded
to look to Him. And to not is an out and out
rebellion. Just like the children of Israel
in the wilderness, we won't go into the land. If you won't trust
Christ, that is an out and out rebellion. I want you to understand
that. Do I have a right to believe? It's not like that. You better
believe. There's ramifications if you don't. is the root of the problem we're
in today. Go to Genesis chapter two. Genesis chapter two and pick
up in verse 15. And the Lord God took the man
and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep
it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree
of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day
that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now these are
the Lord's words. This is the word of God himself.
Command, don't eat of the tree. The information, when you do,
you'll die. This is what the Lord has to
say. Now go over to Genesis chapter 3 and look at verse 1. Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he
said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent,
we may eat of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the
tree which is in the midst of the garden. God hath said, ye
shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it. lest ye die."
Now, this is a side note, but did you notice there that she
embellished? And this is before the fall. I can't explain that,
but as far as I can tell, this is the first human error recorded
in Scripture. And I want you to notice what
it is. It is a modification to what
the Lord had said. All human error, all false religion
is a modification of what the Lord has said, either by addition
or by subtraction. In this case, it's addition.
I'll give you some examples. Addition. You must have the shed
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, but you must do your part. You can use any word you want,
put in there an act of free will, do whatever it is they say you
need to do, in addition to what the Lord has said, in addition
to Christ alone. Subtraction. Every man is born
in this world dead in trespasses and sins. But dead doesn't really
mean dead. You have some ability. you have
a free will. You can choose to allow the Lord
to save you. You can choose to believe a subtraction from what
the Lord has said. That every man is dead, and it
really means dead. Zero ability in trespasses and
sins. All false religion is founded
on this. It is a modification to what the Lord has said. Side
note though, look at verse four. We've heard what the Lord had
to say, now let's see what Satan had to say. And the serpent said
unto the woman, You shall not surely die. For God doth know
that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." What Satan is
saying here is he's lying to you. He's not telling you the
truth. What he knows is when you eat this fruit, you're going
to be your own god, right? You'll be able to choose good
over evil. And when you choose the good, everyone's gonna be
really impressed with you. You're gonna get some glory for yourself.
You'll be your own free agent. This is gonna be a good thing
for you. He's selfish. He wants all the glory for himself.
He's lying to you. Here we have two conflicting statements. Happens
in police work all the time. Someone is telling the truth.
In the day you eat thereof, you shall surely die, or you won't
die. It'll be good for you. Who do
they believe? Verse six. And when the woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant
to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she
took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both
were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed
fig leaves together, and they made themselves aprons." Who
did they believe? They chose to believe a lie.
They did not believe God. And their unbelief led to their
out-and-out rebellion. Unbelief leads to rebellion.
This is our big problem. Now, go back to your text. Look
at verse 6. Here's the judgment for their
unbelief and their rebellion. And the Lord sent fiery serpents
among the people, and they bit the people, and much people of
Israel died. This is the judgment against
them for what they've done. Now, the first thing I notice
here is that these serpents bit the people. That means all the
people. No one is exempt from this bite. Everybody got bit.
This bite, this serpent and his bite and the venom, it represents
sin. Every man is born in this world
a sinner, but not every man knows that. In fact, until the Lord
reveals himself to you, you have no knowledge of your sin, no
real knowledge. That's a strong statement, right?
Well, where's the evidence of it? Isaiah chapter six. In the
year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. Who'd I see? Christ.
Where'd he see him? Sitting on a throne, he saw a
sovereign. High and lifted up, one worthy of worship. He saw
his train filling the temple. Only room for one righteousness.
It filled the temple. There was no other room for another
righteousness. His garment, his robe, it filled the temple, filled
it all up. There's only one righteousness, that's his. And the seraphim
shouted, holy, holy, holy. That's who he saw. And when you
get to verse five, you know what he says? Woe is me. I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean lips and
I dwell amongst a people of unclean lips. My eyes have seen the king.
Lord of hosts. My question is this, which one
came first, woe is me or I saw the Lord? I saw the Lord. Then woe is me. You won't know anything about
your sin until the Lord reveals himself to you. But here's the
effects of sin right here. Much people died. The wages of
sin is death. If something is not done about
my sin, I know my end state, I'm going to die. I'm not talking
about a physical death. We're all in line for that. I'm
talking about a final separation from the Lord, actually being
put in a place where He is not. Where He's not. I don't want
that. Look at verse 7. This is what
happens when the Lord reveals Himself to you. This is true
repentance. Therefore the people came to
Moses and said, We have sinned. For we have spoken against the
Lord and against thee. Pray unto the Lord that he take away the
serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Their statement, we have sinned. Before, it was murmuring, right?
This is the Lord's fault, he's brought us this way. He brought
us here to die, this is all his fault. Now, what's the statement
from the repentant heart? This is my fault. We have sinned. My sin is my fault. This is the cry of the repentant
heart. This is what they want. Take away the serpents from us.
Or do something about my sin. Something has to be done about
my sin, and I can't do anything about it. I can't heal myself.
Something has to be done about it. Take away the serpents from
us. Take away the sin. And if you
notice here, they didn't go to the Lord. They went to Moses. From the repentant heart, you
recognize you can't come into the Father's presence. Not and
live. He's holy. He is absolutely just. I can't come into his presence.
I need an intercessor. I need a high priest. I need
a go-between. They went to Moses, make intercession
for us. He come to Christ. I need a great
high priest, someone I can come to who can make intercession
for me. This is from the repentant heart
right here. Now, look at verse eight. And the Lord said unto Moses,
make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole, and it shall
come to pass that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon
it, shall live. 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. I'm gonna speak very plainly
here. The serpent of brass pictures the Lord Jesus Christ on the
cross. Lord Jesus Christ was crucified on a pole. It was not
a cross like we would see like that. He was crucified, hands
over feet, on a pole. This serpent of brass was made
of brass and it's a mixture of two metals, copper and tin. This
speaks of the Lord's natures, His complete and utter deity,
being altogether God and being altogether man. But also this,
you know what brass was to the children of Israel? Worthless. It had zero value to them whatsoever. It was not a precious metal in
any way. Christ was worthless to us when he walked along this
earth, and he's worthless to most men to this day. But this,
here's my big question. Why a serpent? Why not a lamb, a brass lamb? Why not a shepherd's crook of
brass? Why not a crown? Why a serpent? Why raise up a
serpent of brass? The serpent represents the sin.
Why a serpent? What did the father see hanging
on that cross on Calvary's hill that day? He saw sin. I quoted this to
you this morning. I'm going to quote it again.
Second Corinthians 521, for he hath made him sin for us who
knew no sin that we might be made the very righteousness of
God in him. What hung on the cross that day
was my sin, which became his sin. But this is the part I love. I'm just reiterating what I said
this morning, and I don't care, because this is what I love.
Sin can't be in two places. That means if it hung on that
cross, and it was punished on that cross, to this day, right
now, I do not bear it. The reason for the separation
between me and my God is no more, and I can come boldly now to
the throne of grace. What are they supposed to do
with the serpent? Very simple. You're supposed to look to it.
Now, let's consider this for a moment. Who is holding the
pole? Moses was. He's at the bottom,
he's holding the pole up, serpent's at the top. If you would have
looked at Moses, it would have done you absolutely no good.
What does Moses represent? The law. If you look to your
own personal obedience, we looked at that in Romans 3 this morning,
the deeds of the law, me having to do anything, I will not be
justified. Don't look to the law. It will
do you no good. They couldn't have looked at their wounds.
They could look at their bite mark and say, listen, look at this
wound. It's really terrible. Don't look to your sin. People
say, well, I feel terrible about my sin all the time. I must be
saved. You should feel terrible about your sin. So should I.
And you don't know the half of it. But don't look to your sin.
It won't do you any good. And here's man's religion. You
couldn't look at your buddy. Be like, listen, I'm hurting.
I mean, I've got a fever. I'm close to death. But I mean,
he's unconscious. I'm at least better by comparison,
right? That's going to do you no good. There was one place
you could look and live, and you look to the serpent of brass.
This is the picture of faith, looking to Christ with the look
of faith, trusting him for every aspect of our salvation. That's
what this is. Now, what is faith? I could take
to you a bunch of scriptures. Let's just talk very plainly
for a second. All right. My kids are getting older, right? A little
bit older, but not too many years ago, they were completely and
utterly dependent upon their mother for everything. If they
were hungry, they went to their mother and she fed them. And
they didn't inquire about the grocery budget, whether we had
enough money in the bank to buy groceries. And they didn't ask
to help. They simply knew I'm hungry. She's going to feed me.
And this was the beautiful part. She fed them whether they said
they were hungry or not. they were completely and utterly dependent
upon their mother to feed them. If they were hurt, they went
to their mother and they didn't ask what medicine she was going
to use or what treatment option she was going to employ. They
simply knew this woman is going to make me better. That was it.
They trusted her. If they were scared, they crawl up on their
mother's arms and they knew no matter what, she was going to
protect them from whatever it was she was scared of. It is
no different than us, with us. A childlike dependence. On that
cross, I see my sin payment. I see my sin no more, the end
of sin, me being dead to sin on that cross. I see him, my
righteousness. It's all right there. It's not
here. It's right there, hanging on that cross. It's mine, but
it's his. I see my sanctification. As he
is, so are we in this world. He's holy, right? As he is, so
are we in this world. That's my holiness. He is, so
I am. Trust him for everything, including
this. trusting him for the ability to look. I know that's paradoxical. We look to him for the ability
to look. Hebrews 12, 2, looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith. That's paradoxical. I can't explain that. I look
to him for the ability to look. Give me faith. That's what this
means. All right. We'll wrap this up
with this. I'm going to give you a story. So Rob Elliott, the Elliotts
and us, we went on vacation over the summer. Me and Rob took Jackson
and Tucker to a serpentarium. They had snakes there. Remember
this. So we go, and there's this grizzled old guy who'd been handling
snakes his entire life. And he puts on a little show.
He's got a platform, stands about that high. He's got plexiglass
on top of it. And we're sitting three feet
away from him, something like that. And this guy dumps poisonous
snakes out into this little platform. And he starts cupping them and
grabbing them. These things are fighting, right? And he's comfortable.
He's a snake handler. And he's milking them for an
antivenom, right? He says, while I'm doing this,
I'm going to debunk some rumors for you about snake bites. He
says, here's what people get told, right? If you get bit by
a snake, what you need to do is you take a tourniquet, and you
put it between the wound and the heart. And what that's going
to do is it's going to keep the venom from actually going to
your heart, and you'll live. He says it's not true. He says, what's
going to happen is the venom will localize and destroy your
arm. It's going to get through the tourniquet anyways, and it's
going to kill you anyways. So if you do that, not only have
you not done yourself any good, you've done yourself harm. Don't
do that. He says, here's another one.
So you get bit by a snake. They say, lance it with a knife,
and then use a suction cup or something to try to pump out
the venom. He says, it won't work. Venom's already in your body.
He says, and if you do, you'll cut yourself. You'll probably
bleed out. If you do that, you will make things worse. You will
not make them any better. He says, here's the thing. If
you get bit by a venomous snake, there is only one thing you can
do. You have to have the anti-venom. That was it. And these things
are spraying venom and everything. And this one guy pipes up and
he goes, you keep that on site, right? And the guy goes, no. He goes, we don't have any here.
He goes, there's a hospital 30 miles down that road. He goes,
there's a doctor there. They have the antivenom. If one
of us gets bit, we get in the truck, we drive down there, we
get to the doctor. If we get to the doctor, he gives
us the antivenom, we live. Here's my point, the point of
this entire message. If you try to do something to earn favor
with God, not only have you not made it any better, you've done
yourself damage. There is one thing to do. You get to the physician. He's got the antebellum. You
look to Christ. The look of faith, rest and trust
in Him alone. That's it. It's as simple as
I can possibly make. I'm going to leave you all there.